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Historical trauma refers to the generationally transferred human consequences of cultural oppression in a population associated with colonization, slavery, and genocide. Historical trauma theory suggests that such trauma functions as a social determinant of health influencing me…

In 1995, I released a musical album and faced criticism for calling myself an island girl, because I am Filipino and not CHamoru, one of the Guåhan’s indigenous people. Through the years, I have become more conscious of how my ways of knowing and being are primarily a colonial e…

Accreditation has evolved into a cornerstone of U.S. higher education, and reflects the histories, norms, and values of the U.S. academic system. It is an institutional process with visibility at the highest levels of federal government with far-reaching consequences for the ins…

The psychological literature conducted in Guam on indigenous practices of resistance to colonialism is nonexistent. This dissertation responds to this absence in the literature by conducting an exploratory hermeneutic study on the lived experience of members of Chamoru rights gr…