Rayelle Davis discusses her book, Money in the Mountains: The Culture Trauma of Appalachia. By drawing upon her work as a trauma therapist in the region, Davis comes to argue that Appalachian trauma is colonial trauma. Tracing the predatory systems of power and the extraction of wealth and resources by a distant elite, Davis sees the challenges around identity, sovereignty, and the actual cost of inequality in America come down to colonial models of exploitation. Rayelle Davis is a trauma therapist and author.