Rape Of Navajo Women

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In the scene, a woman talked about that for Navajo is still difficult to talk about the long walk. Also, she started to cry like she was living at that time. According to Blog “(historical trauma is) the devastating trauma of genocide, loss culture, and forcible removal from family and communities are all unresolved and become a sort of ‘psychological baggage…” This Navajo woman is an example of the continuous cycle of trauma that was transmitted to the past generations and perhaps she will pass to the next generations.

One of elder woman describe how Navajo suffered during the long walk and mentioned about that pretty girls were captured and rape. Tony Barta mentioned that attempt is considered an intention to destroy the group, in this case

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