Canada: Postcolonial Suicide Among Inuit In Arctic Canada

Canada: Postcolonial Suicide Among Inuit In Arctic Canada   Michael J. Kral, 2012   Indigenous youth suicide incidence is high globally, and mostly involves young males. However, the Inuit of Arctic Canada have a suicide rate that is among the highest in the world (and ten times that for the rest of Canada). The author suggests that suicide increase has emerged because of changes stemming in part from the Canadian government era in the Arctic in the 1950s and 1960s. The effects of...

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