 Complete the following phrase:  Historical trauma is described as collective emotional and psychological damage caused by traumatic events in a persons lifetime and across multiple generations according to Dr. Laurelle Myhra, an expert on Native American mental health. Native Americans experience historical trauma through the effects of colonization such as wars and battles with the U.S. military, assimilation, forced removal, and genocide. Outside of war and purposeful genocide, a senior lecturer on Native American literature and culture Dr. Carrie Sheffield maintains other causes are equally traumatic. She asserts that Native Americans experienced historical trauma through fatal epidemics, forced relocation to reservations, and the education of Native children at boarding schools. Even though many American Indians did not experience first hand traumatic events like the 