Suicide Among Indigenous Peoples: What Does The International Knowledge Tell Us?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Antoon A. Leenaars
Marlene EchoHawk
David Lester
Lindsey Leenaars
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2007, pp. 479-501
Description
Studies found that suicide is multi-determined and that there are no simple answers to the youth epidemic experienced worldwide. However, colonialism, and the residual effects of it, are cited as a common factor in all worldwide studies of suicide rates among Indigenous Peoples.