Trauma In The Indigenous Community

After residential school were closed it left a lot of trauma within the Indigenous community, many students who attended residential school suffered later years with alcohol and drug abuse. These students would later go on to have families of their own and bring in their past trauma and passed it through generations. This cause many indigenous family to break in half and lead to single parent household. Alcohol became many of the young Indigenous men and women coping mechanism which lead to many of the indigenous men committing offences and being sent away to prisons and left mothers to care for the children on their own. As the years went by, and more and more indigenous people were left to grow up in single family home while living in poverty. Many indigenous …show more content…
Many Women lose their way along life and were forced into sex work. As time went by, many indigenous women and young girls started to come up missing and murdered. Women would leave for work or school and wouldn’t be found alive again. My beliefs on to why indigenous women and girls are going missing and some coming up murder is because of the years of colonization that took place many years ago. The root to these sad offences happening is because of the years of trauma and discrimination the indigenous faced. They weren’t allowed to vote, children sent away from, lost their traditional language and abused while in the care of others. This left many of the children who attended residential school to grow up with resentment and anger and they weren’t able to function like normal people in society and all the pain they had they passed it down to generations, who then knew they were made to feel less of a human and because of this they didn’t try to achieve normal things such as graduating high school or better their lives. A lot just felt comfortable doing what they were already doing because they felt this was the government fault and that they were doing just fine before the European’s arrived on their