Steven Amos, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, shares his hopeful journey of recovery from substance abuse while reflecting on the historical injustices faced by his community. Growing up on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming, Amos experienced the harsh realities of poverty and generational trauma, compounded by the U.S. government's appropriation of Indigenous lands. His story underscores the lasting impacts of systemic neglect, while highlighting the resilience and hope found in personal recovery and community rebuilding.
The reservation’s stunning landscape conceals more than a century of theft and neglect by the United States.
They call it generational trauma; it keeps going and going and going, and people don't want to confront that.
To build America, the U.S. government enacted laws to redistribute Indigenous lands they had taken.
Amos feels hopeful for once, finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job.
#indigenous-rights #generational-trauma #historical-injustice #community-resilience #personal-recovery
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