Suicide

Overview of problems facing the Innu people, the continuation of working towards self-government agreements and fair land rights settlements.

Instructive experiment regarding the psychology of oppression and dislocation. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.

Results of study show suicide rates were higher for men than women while the prevalence of suicidal thoughts was higher among women.

Purpose of guide is to support communities in the development of effective resources for suicide prevention.

Summarizes presentations made at a five day forum in which youth from 62 northern communities shared lived experiences and issues affecting their lives.

Introduction to a play aimed at helping youth make wise decisions. Article found by scrolling to page 14.

Child and Youth Advocate for Alberta reports on seven suicides which took place in 2013-2014. Each individual was either involved with Child Intervention Services at the time of their death, or had been within the previous two years. Includes 12 recommendations for improvements to provincial services and programs.

Argues that to understand suicide in First Nations there must be more of a shift away from the current quantitative methods to that of qualitative, including listening to the voices of the people themselves.

Looks at statistical trends in number of suicides, age, sex, region and community. Discusses past and current research, areas for future study, and seven working hypotheses. Excerpt from Northern Exposure: Peoples, Powers and Prospects in Canada's North edited by Frances Abele, Thomas J. Courchene, F. Leslie Seidle and Frances St-Hilaire.

Findings of study are used to guide targeted suicide prevention programs.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Manitoba, 2002.

Looks at the correlation between language knowledge, suicide rates and religion. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 73.

Participants of the Ahikaa programme shared stories of hope and reported the programme as both life-changing and healing.

Concludes that Nunavummiut desire a range of prevention services, from community initiatives focused on primary prevention through to professional care for people at higher risk.

Discusses prevention strategies for communities, schools, youth/families and addictions as a contributing factor, as well as culturally appropriate practices for dealing with the problem.

Mathematics and Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cologne, 2011.

Conference participants collectively formulated a research and program policy agenda for addressing the disproportionately high rates of suicide in Native North American communities.

Interviews conducted with 25 university students indicated that those who had a greater levels of traditional practice and subsistence activities tended to be less prone to suicide.

Emphasizes two points: differential rates between communities and what should be done to address problem. Chapter five from Setting the Agenda for Change, vol. 2, which is also vol. 2 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2002.

Agreement between Aboriginal leaders, federal and provincial governments signed November, 2005. Goals included extending life expectancy, reducing suicide, diabetes and infant mortality.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2009.

Traces trends in Nunavut, Nunavik, Alaska, Greenland and the Circumpolar region, and discusses possible explanations for increases in the suicide rate.

Chapter three from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 2, which is also vol. 4 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series.

Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.

Looks at inter-generational effects by investigating direct or indirect exposure to trauma experiences of two groups: community members who were residential schools survivors and community members who did not attend residential schools.

Explains the experience of trauma and the vulnerability of youth because of lack of services, education, poverty, high death rates, victimization and chronic health problems.

Explains suicide as the cause of death for one third of Aboriginal youth. Prime Minister Harper suggests that economic development could fix the problem, but the author contends that the issue is too deep rooted for such a quick fix.

Looks at policies and recommendations to facilitate local tribal programs uniquely designed to promote spiritual and cultural traditions.

Comments on a group of Indigenous teenagers who use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic and bullying in their remote community. Duration: 16:31.

Argues that an integrated approach, incorporating both deprivation (influences external to the individual) and importation (internal to the individual) theory, is necessary when analyzing risk factors for suicide in the inmates.

Social Work Thesis (MSW)--McGill University, 2017.

Comments on the six basic factors which influence counseling efforts with Native Americans.

Contends that the consistency across continents is that social environments are a major factor underlying suicide.

Examined data from mandated self-injury registry between 2007 and 2010 from 352 individuals aged 15-24.

Project involved interviewing participants from the communities of Igloolik and Qikiqtarjuaq. Common themes were: loneliness, romantic relationship problems, family problems, anger at family or romantic partners, hiding suicidal thoughts or distress, and youth copying each other.

Study demonstrates that family, kinship, communication, and traditional knowledge are essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being.

Presents a study which demonstrates that family life is essential to Inuit conceptions of well-being and that interventions for mental health promotion should be community-based and family centered.

Looks at the First Nations Action and Support Team (FAST) program partnered by the Wet'suwet'en, Gitxsan, Tsimshian and Nisga'a First Nations.

Author comments on attending 3 learning experiences in North America and the information he gained from each one. "A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust funded learning experience to Canada and the United States, June 2015".

Survey results show a higher prevalence of heath-risk behaviors in urban American Indian and Alaska Native youth compared to other youth.

Looks at existing resources for youth, challenges that exist for for accessing resources, and how suicide is viewed culturally by community members.

Discusses the effectiveness of the RFL questionnaire in assessing youth suicide risk and as a tool for addressing the gap between European therapies and traditional healing.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Regina, 1998.

Looks at the factors that contribute to the high rates of death.

Chronicles development and discusses key features of the initiative.

Comments on the need for Native American heroes and role models for youth to look up to and follow in their footsteps.

Poem about the strength of First Nations peoples.

Statistics from various sources gathered to assist tribes in developing public health programs and priorities.

Comments on the four themes that emerged from the focus group discussions on the topic "suicide among Sami"

Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fifth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Thunder Bay. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities, and advocates for Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance. Duration: 53:59