What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine the ongoing impacts of colonial violence on Indigenous communities and propose collective healing practices as a remedy.

May 21, 2026

Collective Healings of Colonial Wounds: A Conceptual Framework from Indigenous Perspectives

Key Points

To examine the ongoing impacts of colonial violence on Indigenous communities and propose collective healing practices as a remedy.
Discussed historical and contemporary impacts of colonial violence on Indigenous identities and practices.
Outlined collective healing as a ritual practice for restoring communal connections and memories.
Analyzed the role of collective healings in supporting Indigenous resurgence in colonized territories.
Collective healings are identified as essential for restoring identities impacted by colonial violence.
Ritual practices strengthen Indigenous communal ways of life and support emotional and spiritual healing.
The framework illustrates the need for reconnecting individuals with their territories and collective memories.

Abstract

Colonial violence is ongoing. It started with the first imperial invasions of Indigenous lands and continues harming communalist ways of life. Indigenous scholars think of the trauma of colonial violence as historical, connecting past, present, and future and wounding the spirits and souls of body-territories. Collective healings are ritual practices that strengthen or restore memories, identities, knowledge, and practices, reconnecting reciprocal relationships across beings and territories and alleviating colonial wounds. As such, collective healings processes support Indigenous resurgence in colonially wounded lands. As Indigenous knowledges, practices, identities, memories, languages, and rituals are strengthened, the body-territory rebalances what colonial violence disrupts.

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