The document discusses historical trauma experienced by black communities related to land, such as sharecropping, sundown towns, and urban riots. It presents a theory of change for increasing autonomy, authority, and agency through narratives that acknowledge and transcend effects of historical trauma. Examples are provided of artists reframing land-based trauma in Detroit through intergenerational interviews. Hallmarks of historical trauma are listed as survivor guilt, fixation on past trauma, and hypervigilance. The document concludes with examples of confronting trauma, reframing agriculture as African heritage, and taking action through kinship-based land ownership to transcend historical trauma.