Healing generational trauma is a conversation that must happen. Transgenerational trauma occurs when trauma-related stress experienced by survivors is passed on to subsequent generations. The scope of the trauma inflicted by residential schools, enslavement, attempted genocide, forced relocation and assimilation, and the ongoing effects of colonialism, racism and appropriation are still being felt today.
Panelists include:
• Marty Chase Alone (Lakota):
• Jordan Dresser (Northern Arapaho): associate-producer, Chairman of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, Museum of Boulder Guest Curator for The Boulder Experience, and longtime Museum of Boulder collaborator.
• Nóóbesei Nííbei (Singing Southern Woman): Billie Sutton, Southern Arapaho, retired IT teacher, Arapaho District 1 legislator, Arapaho language advocate, Arapaho Nation handgame team member, 2011 and 2021 State champions. Billie has been an active part of Boulder’s Indigenous Peoples Day from the start and currently creates short learning videos posted in YouTube in an attempt to promote Arapaho language revitalization. Billie will share the history of the Southern Arapaho.
Presented by Right Relationship Boulder and in partnership with the City of Boulder Human Relations Commission, Boulder Arts Commission, CU Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Mediator Foundation, and the Boulder Watershed Collective.