The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.174-175

Eduardo Duran dealt with these issues in his work with native people as he posed these questions to the Indian community; “Most Indians responded with issues of injustice, the conquest, the dishonored treaties, land thefts and other long term problems of Indians.” He found a common thread that weaves across much of the pain and suffering found in the Native American communities across the United States and perhaps the entire western Hemisphere. The common thread image which became most binding and meaningful to the authors and to some of the other people working in other Native American communities is the concept termed the “soul wound.”

 Dr. Duran stated: “If one accepts the terms soul, psyche, myth, dream, and culture as part of being in the world in their particular reality, then one can begin to understand the soul wound. The notion of soul wound is one which is at the core of much of the suffering that indigenous peoples have undergone for several centuries.” Indians are generational survivors of physical genocide and victims of white apartheid political oppression and economic exploitation systems on Indian reservations today.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.174-175