Volume 17 Spring 2006 Issue No. 3

In This Issue:
Heroes of Today

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Features

8 Historical Trauma: Holocaust victims, American Indians recovering from abuses of the past
by Tina Deschenie (Diné)
In this interview, Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (Oglala/Hunkpapa Lakota) explains how culture can help heal centuries of pain.

12 Heroes of Heroes: Everyone has someone to look up to
Dr. Jim Shanley, Dr. Joe McDonald, Wilma Mankiller, Chris Eyre, and Dr. Janine Pease explain whom they most admire.

18 Walking the Line: Do heroes help us choose the Red Road instead of self-destruction?
by Dorreen Yellow Bird (Sahnish/Dakota/Lakota)
Violent deaths in the past year at Red Lake and Standing Rock sent this journalist on a search through her own past for answers.

Departments

7 Editor's Essay: Heroes of Today, Rising from the Past
by Marjane Ambler

21 Profile: Phillip John Young (Spirit Lake Dakota)
by Cynthia Lindquist Mala (Spirit Lake Dakota)

22 Talking Circle
by Dr. Paul Zolbrod

24 Resource Guide: Historical Trauma and Post-Colonial Stress in American Indian Populations
by Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart and Tina Deschenie

28 Research
by Shannon Murray

33 On Campus

46 Media Reviews
by Michael W. Simpson, Marjane Ambler, Holly Ristau, and Gwynne Spencer

49 Advertising Index

50 Voices
by Dr. Michael V. Martin

On the cover:

Each December, the 300-mile Big Foot Memorial Ride retraces the trail taken by Lakota people, which ended in the Wounded Knee Massacre on Dec. 29, 1890. Photo by Gwendolen Cates (www.gwendolencates.com)