Disenfranchised Grief Analysis

In this paper, they define the concept of disenfranchised grief, stating that it supports the concept of unresolved grief. According to the authors, disenfranchised grief is defined as grief that is not legitimized by a society. They argue that the dominant European American culture only validates heavy grieving for the death of an immediate family in the current generation. Thus, the mourning of the loss of ancestors, language, animal relatives, songs, and dances, which are a salient features of the native soul, is not legitimized.
It is common knowledge that alcohol consumption among the Indian American population resulted from their contact with European American settlers. In such manner, the authors postulate that “drunken comportment