We
now know that Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region of Western
Australia complete suicide at 74 per 100,000, seven times the
non-Indigenous rate. We also know that Indigenous incarceration rates in
Western Australia are 18 times the non-Indigenous rates. Is there a
link between these horrible statistics?
The link goes back to colonisation and historical trauma, we are told. But how, exactly, does historical trauma become intergenerational trauma, and how does this trauma affect both the incarceration rates and the suicide rates of the First Peoples in a white settler country?
The link goes back to colonisation and historical trauma, we are told. But how, exactly, does historical trauma become intergenerational trauma, and how does this trauma affect both the incarceration rates and the suicide rates of the First Peoples in a white settler country?