Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between gendered colonial violence, historical trauma, and intergenerational oppression through a decolonial feminist framework. It argues that colonialism should not be understood solely as a past political or territorial project: its gendered logics continue through institutions, legal arrangements, racial hierarchies, cultural narratives, and unequal distributions of social power. Indigenous women and other colonised women have experienced colonial domination through the regulation of sexuality, reproductive capacity, family relations, labour, land, and cultural authority. Such violence can generate collective and historical trauma whose effects are mediated across generations through disrupted kinship networks, dispossession, poverty, racism, family separation, and the devaluation of Indigenous knowledge. Drawing on intersectional feminism, settler-colonial studies, and scholarship on historical trauma, the paper develops a conceptual account of