Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines

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Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Definitions
Prologue Great-grandmother’ s Gift
Chapter One: Dadirri: Listening to one another
	A research purpose, topic and focus
	What is violence?
	Justification for the research
	A culturally safe research approach
	Dadirri: Listening to one another
Chapter Two: Song Lines and Trauma Trails
	Cultures in collision
	Aboriginal worldviews
	Relationships and land
	Ceremony and ritual as articulation of relationship
	Relationships between people
	Lore and law
	Aggression (or assertion) as instrumentality
	What does violence do to human societies?
	The disastrous consequences of war and colonisation
	Physical violence: invasion, disease, death and destruction
	Structural violence: enforced dependency, legislation, reserves and removals
	Psycho-social dominance: cultural and spiritual genocide
	The anthropology of violence
	Victimisation, loss and grief
	Violence experienced as traumatisation
	Trauma expressed as violence
	Transgenerational aspects of trauma
	Trauma trails: fractured identities, families, communities
	Summary
Chapter Three: We Al-li: A program of healing
	We Al-li: fire and water, anger and grief
	Stories of pain and stories of healing
	“ What do you remember most about your childhood?”
	“ What was it like for you growing up as a young man or young woman?”
	“ Have you ever hurt yourself?”
	“ Have you ever experienced any form of violence as an adult?”
	“ Have you ever behaved violently towards another person or thing?”
	“ Were the police ever involved in any of this?”
	“ Tell me more about the alcohol and drugs you used.”
	“ What was/is being in a family like for you?”
	“ Can you talk about feelings?”
	“ Can you talk about healing, what does it mean?”
	Summary
Chapter Four: The Way of the Human Being I: The trauma story
	Trauma experiences, thoughts, feelings and behaviours
	Self as inadequate consequent to child harm/trauma
	Victim/perpetrator/survivor roles in family and community violence
	Alcohol and other drug misuse: a self-medicating response to trauma
	Suicidal and other self-harming behaviour
	The search for identity: fragmentation and separation
	Transgenerational transmission of trauma
	Summary
Chapter Five: The Way of the Human Being II: The healing story
	Healing as an awakening
	Healing as an experience of safety
	Healing as community support
	Rebuilding a sense of family and community in healing
	Healing as ever-deepening self-knowledge
	The use of ceremony in healing
	Cultural and spiritual identity in healing
	Healing as transformation and transcendence
	Integration in healing
	Summary
Chapter Six: To Unite Hearts and Establish Order
	Cultural tools which assist healing: a model for community action
	Acts of violence and experiences of trauma
	Violence, trauma, and child development
	Violence, trauma, and family and community fragmentation
	Violence, trauma, and alcohol and other drug abuse
	Violence, trauma, and race and gender injustice
	Violence, trauma, and criminal behaviour
	Violence, trauma, and poverty cycles
	Across generations: conflicting memories, feelings, and behaviours
	Change and healing: making connections
	Personal and social experiences which assist change and promote healing
	What is healing and how do people heal?
	Indigenous values and practices in healing
	Deconstructing violence and constructing life meaning and purpose
	Summary
	In memoriam: 12 June 1994— 21 June 1998
Epilogue Healing Dreaming
	Dream: 2 June 1996
Bibliography
Index
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