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Joseph P. Gone "Re-Counting Coup: Communicating Indigenous Vitality in the Age of Historical Trauma"

Brief description: This presentation describes the historical functions of Aaniih-Gros Ventre war narratives and coup tales, including their role in conveying life or vitality. Through comparative consideration of the “trauma narrative” with the “coup tale,” an alternative approach to cultivating American Indian community resilience rather than vulnerability is proposed. Dr. Joseph P. Gone is Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. He is featured here as the first in our Faculty Seminar Series for 2023-2024. Full abstract: Contemporary American Indians suffer from disproportionately high degrees of psychiatric distress. Mental health researchers and professionals, as well as American Indian community members, have consistently associated these disproportionate rates of distress with indigenous historical experiences of European and Euro-American colonization. This emphasis on the impact of colonization and associated historical consciousness within tribal communities has occasioned increasingly widespread professional consideration of “historical trauma” among indigenous peoples. In contrast to personal experiences of a traumatic nature, the discourse of historical trauma weds the concepts of “historical oppression” and “psychological trauma” to explain community-wide risk for adverse mental health outcomes originating from the depredations of past colonial subjugation through intergenerational transmission of vulnerability and risk. But is this discourse of historical trauma really the best way to describe, explain, and represent American Indian responses to historical oppression and ongoing disadvantage? In this presentation, I describe various historical functions of Aaniih-Gros Ventre war narratives or coup tales, including their role in conveying or communicating life or vitality. Through comparative consideration of the “trauma narrative” and the “coup tale,” an alternative framework for cultivating American Indian community resilience rather than vulnerability will be proposed on the basis of these fundamentally incompatible discursive practices. Full biography: Joseph P. Gone is an international expert in the psychology and mental health of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples. A tenured full professor at Harvard University, Gone has collaborated with tribal communities for nearly 30 years to re-envision conventional mental health services for advancing Indigenous well-being. As a clinical-community psychologist and action researcher, he has published over 100 scientific articles and chapters. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association. Gone is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Illinois, and he also trained at Dartmouth College and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for sixteen years, where he directed the Native American Studies program prior to joining the faculty at Harvard. An enrolled member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre Tribal Nation of Montana, he also served briefly as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Fort Belknap Indian reservation. Honored with more than 20 fellowships and career awards (including a Guggenheim Fellowship), Gone was the recipient of the 2021 APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research, and the 2023 APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.