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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2002

Overcoming years of physical, alcohol and sexual abuse took understanding "multi-generational trauma" that affects Native people. Shea Goodluck-Barnes said.

Goodluck-Barnes, a 50-year-old Navajo woman, said Western doctors were unable to help her. It took fellow Native Americans to help her break free of the abuse, she said at a recent domestic violence workshop in Farmington, New Mexico.

Goodluck-Barnes said she was sexually abused by her grandfather and was born to an alcoholic mother. She entered into abusive relationships but has been sober for 16 years.

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Overcoming abuse and oppression (The Farmington Daily-Times 11/19)

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