Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Definitions -- Prologue Great-grandmother' s Gift -- Chapter One: Dadirri: Listening to one another -- A research purpose, topic and focus -- What is violence? -- Justification for the research -- A culturally safe research approach -- Dadirri: Listening to one another -- Chapter Two: Song Lines and Trauma Trails -- Cultures in collision -- Aboriginal worldviews -- Relationships and land -- Ceremony and ritual as articulation of relationship -- Relationships between people -- Lore and law -- Aggression (or assertion) as instrumentality -- What does violence do to human societies? -- The disastrous consequences of war and colonisation -- Physical violence: invasion, disease, death and destruction -- Structural violence: enforced dependency, legislation, reserves and removals -- Psycho-social dominance: cultural and spiritual genocide -- The anthropology of violence -- Victimisation, loss and grief -- Violence experienced as traumatisation -- Trauma expressed as violence -- Transgenerational aspects of trauma -- Trauma trails: fractured identities, families, communities -- Summary -- Chapter Three: We Al-li: A program of healing -- We Al-li: fire and water, anger and grief -- Stories of pain and stories of healing -- " What do you remember most about your childhood?" -- " What was it like for you growing up as a young man or young woman?" -- " Have you ever hurt yourself?" -- " Have you ever experienced any form of violence as an adult?" -- " Have you ever behaved violently towards another person or thing?" -- " Were the police ever involved in any of this?" -- " Tell me more about the alcohol and drugs you used." -- " What was/is being in a family like for you?" -- " Can you talk about feelings?" -- " Can you talk about healing, what does it mean?" -- Summary.

Chapter Four: The Way of the Human Being I: The trauma story -- Trauma experiences, thoughts, feelings and behaviours -- Self as inadequate consequent to child harm/trauma -- Victim/perpetrator/survivor roles in family and community violence -- Alcohol and other drug misuse: a self-medicating response to trauma -- Suicidal and other self-harming behaviour -- The search for identity: fragmentation and separation -- Transgenerational transmission of trauma -- Summary -- Chapter Five: The Way of the Human Being II: The healing story -- Healing as an awakening -- Healing as an experience of safety -- Healing as community support -- Rebuilding a sense of family and community in healing -- Healing as ever-deepening self-knowledge -- The use of ceremony in healing -- Cultural and spiritual identity in healing -- Healing as transformation and transcendence -- Integration in healing -- Summary -- Chapter Six: To Unite Hearts and Establish Order -- Cultural tools which assist healing: a model for community action -- Acts of violence and experiences of trauma -- Violence, trauma, and child development -- Violence, trauma, and family and community fragmentation -- Violence, trauma, and alcohol and other drug abuse -- Violence, trauma, and race and gender injustice -- Violence, trauma, and criminal behaviour -- Violence, trauma, and poverty cycles -- Across generations: conflicting memories, feelings, and behaviours -- Change and healing: making connections -- Personal and social experiences which assist change and promote healing -- What is healing and how do people heal? -- Indigenous values and practices in healing -- Deconstructing violence and constructing life meaning and purpose -- Summary -- In memoriam: 12 June 1994- 21 June 1998 -- Epilogue Healing Dreaming -- Dream: 2 June 1996 -- Bibliography -- Index -- Other Books from Spinifex Press.