In the summer of 2011, the Altria Group, the biggest of the Big Tobacco companies and the parent company of Philip Morris USA, released a “white paper” that urged New York State to clamp down on tax-free cigarettes manufactured on Indian land. The paper, replete with references to news reports, statutes and case law, was one more feint in a long line of efforts by Big Tobacco to get the federal and state governments to crack down on its competition—sovereign Indian nations and small tobacco manufacturers.
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Statistically speaking, tribal communities across North America face some of the continent’s highest rates of poverty, addiction, domestic violence and obesity. These social ills have persisted since as early as the 1950s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But in the last decade or so, social scientists and public health officials have begun to better understand why some of these problems are so chronic. This they have done by framing the concept of “historical trauma.”
