Global Indigenous Communities is a wide-ranging examination of global Indigenous communities
that continue to suffer from colonization and assimilation issues including intergenerational
trauma. The scholarship is interdisciplinary it is not easily categorized as sociology
anthropology ethnography or philosophy but cuts across all of these disciplines as well as
Indigenous methodologies. The book not only presents an academic study of Indigenous issues
covering Indigenous community life religion the environment economic matters education and
healthcare but also incorporates contributions from Carol Locust EdD that reflect on her
lifetime of experience in Indigenous education and healthcare. Each studied prism of Indigenous
life is revealed to be impacted by the experience of intergenerational trauma that results from
continued colonization. Ultimately this book aims to bridge the communication gap between
Western and Indigenous scholarship and readership artfully combining Indigenous approaches
with a traditional academic style.
