Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing

Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of HealingAn unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults. Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individuals brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior the ways people adapt to trauma to survive are passed down within

Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people’s life

A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world

many others

The book follows the heroic deeds of the Lakota leader who took up arms against the US federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people

some friendly encouragement or an honest view on the world

and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in

why many disappeared

recognized tribes might legally disappear

like the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples around the world

he hopes for the new life the change promises

Standing Rock youth issued a call

this publication from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) compiles the collective curatorship and research carried out by artists and scholars from various territories and Indigenous groups in Australia