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Ties that Bind: Remembering, Mourning, and Healing Historical Trauma

Ties that Bind: Remembering, Mourning, and Healing Historical Trauma 01b-N3246 11/9/04 7:02 AM Page 238 Ties that Bind Remembering, Mourning, and Healing Historical Trauma mary beth faimon When I was asked to write about the Dakota Commemorative March, I needed to think about how I could organize my thoughts around social work micro and macro practice principles as I comment on the event. I am a trained social worker and teach social work practice courses at a small state university in Minnesota. The university, as I like to describe it, is surrounded by five Dakota communities, three in southwestern Minnesota and two in South Dakota, and is located on Dakota land ceded to the United States government in the 1851 Traverse des Sioux Treaty. The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 occurred within thirty-five miles of where the university now stands. I have been teaching here for eight years, and during that time I have established close ties with several Dakota people. Because of those relationships I was asked to be one of the non-Indigenous logistical organizers of the Commemorative March. I am a Minnesotan. My great-grandmother was born in Marysville in 1861, just east of Jordan, Minnesota, near Shakopee. I have no idea what my ancestors’ participation was in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Ties that Bind: Remembering, Mourning, and Healing Historical Trauma

The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 28 (1) – Jan 5, 2005

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University of Nebraska Press
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Copyright © 2004 The University of Nebraska Press.
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1534-1828

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01b-N3246 11/9/04 7:02 AM Page 238 Ties that Bind Remembering, Mourning, and Healing Historical Trauma mary beth faimon When I was asked to write about the Dakota Commemorative March, I needed to think about how I could organize my thoughts around social work micro and macro practice principles as I comment on the event. I am a trained social worker and teach social work practice courses at a small state university in Minnesota. The university, as I like to describe it, is surrounded by five Dakota communities, three in southwestern Minnesota and two in South Dakota, and is located on Dakota land ceded to the United States government in the 1851 Traverse des Sioux Treaty. The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 occurred within thirty-five miles of where the university now stands. I have been teaching here for eight years, and during that time I have established close ties with several Dakota people. Because of those relationships I was asked to be one of the non-Indigenous logistical organizers of the Commemorative March. I am a Minnesotan. My great-grandmother was born in Marysville in 1861, just east of Jordan, Minnesota, near Shakopee. I have no idea what my ancestors’ participation was in

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Published: Jan 5, 2005

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