For Some Native Americans, Traditional Beliefs Hold Key to Ending Domestic Violence
“Tradition and culture are really at the core of who we are. It’s how we heal.” by Claudia Boyd-Barrett For much of his early adulthood, Mike Duncan, a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Mendocino County, wrestled with unhealthy ideas about masculinity that devalued women and child-rearing. Among Duncan’s chief regrets from that time are how he behaved toward the mother of his oldest children, and the negative example he presented to his kids. “I was … trying to be right, trying to be masculine, you know, ‘I’m the man, listen to me,’ type of mentality,” says Dun...
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