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Decolonization is also used for a process that individuals from colonized peoples can undergo to make a personal transformation that recognizes their ancestral cultural values and the historical forces that took away their knowledge of their own culture. Decolonization is used in indigenous studies and Aboriginal (First Nation) Canadian studies in particular in health and healing contexts. For example, a First Nations person may come to understand that their family, over the past four or five generations, has experienced major trauma associated with colonization including epidemics, economic collapse, family collapse, criminalization, disenfranchisement and addictions. This individual may come to realize that to maintain their ancestral culture and community they can work to rebuild and regain their culture through education and identity.