Constructed and Contested Truths: Aboriginal Suicide, Law, and Colonialism in the Canadian West(s), 1823-1927

Erickson, Lesley

doi:10.1353/can.2005.0145

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“…Colonial policies of countries such as Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United States have been enormously destructive to indigenous cultures and have massively undermined traditional community and family practices, according to many psychologists, anthropologists, and social workers (Ball, ; Brave Heart & DeBruyn, ; Padilla, Ward, & Limb, ; Wolfe, ). Forced assimilation processes such as boarding schools, land theft, and cultural denigration created psychological difficulties for indigenous communities, reflected in family violence, sexual abuse, child abuse, alcoholism, depression, and suicide (Bohn, ; Elias et al, ; Erickson, ; Fischler, ; Kral, ; Middlebrook, LeMaster, Beals, Novins, & Manson, ). Ball () posits that in Canada, the removal of children from family care to residential schools produced fissures in the sociocultural transmission of fatherhood roles across generations and created challenges for indigenous fathers' sustained involvement with their children.…”

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Handcuffed protectors? Palestinian fatherhood‐protection unlocking its chains

Otman

2020

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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This article takes the reader through the social‐geographies and psycho‐politics of protection and fatherhood. It examines the challenges to fatherhood roles and modes in which Palestinian fathers protect their families and homes in the context of colonialism in Occupied East Jerusalem. It shares and engages with fathers' own voices and experiences, using a bottom‐up, feminist, and decolonial analysis to reveal the complexities, meanings, and concerns of fathers in their role as protectors. The voices gathered revealed a multilayered understanding of fathers' role as protectors in the framework of psychosocial modes, meanings, techniques, transformations, and acts within an insecure context.

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Handcuffed protectors? Palestinian fatherhood‐protection unlocking its chains

Otman

2020

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…En perspectiva histórico -política han actuado de manera protectora ante la conducta suicida en pueblos indígenas varios procesos, tales como la organización de autogobiernos con control local propio del buen vivir, fortalecimiento comunitario a partir de las tradiciones y prevención de la integración cultural desventajosa, que amortiguan la dependencia de los pueblos indígenas respecto a las sociedades dominantes [25].…”

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El suicidio de indígenas desde la determinación social en salud

Santiago

Rojas

et al. 2018

Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública

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Introduction: Suicide is a common cause of death in the world. Its expression in indigenous populations is a public health problem due to the fact that suicide rates are higher among them than in the general population, preferably affecting low income, unemployed young men who are involved in substance abuse. The magnitude of the problem and its impact on the original populations, even in danger of extinction, allowed the study to expand its comprehension regarding the subject matter, and propose research studies and suitable interventions that can lead to possible solutions. Objective: Annalise completed suicide in indigenous populations based on a social health determination. Methodology: The study conducted a review of the state-of-the-art regarding suicide in indigenous populations from 1993 to 2013; 57 articles were selected because of their quality and pertinence, and they were analyzed in the light of social health determinations. Results: Critical process matrixes where outlined which describe protective destructive processes surrounding suicide in indigenous populations. Conclusion: The approach used in this study allowed the identification of structural conditions of violence that affect indigenous people's well-being, who are the main participators in completed suicide in these populations.

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“…Their children began to manifest a high suicide rate by the mid-1980s, which has climbed to be among the highest suicide rates in the world today (Kral & Idlout, 2009). Indigenous suicide has been tied to colonialism and changes in families, roles, and responsibilities (Erickson, 2005;Kirmayer, Tait, & Simpson, 2009). There is very little research on the mental health of Inuit youth.…”

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Tunngajuq: Stress and resilience among Inuit youth in Nunavut, Canada

Kral

Salusky

Inuksuk

et al. 2014

Transcult Psychiatry

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As part of a cross-national collaborative study of resilience among circumpolar youth, we examined the life experiences, stressors, and coping or resilience strategies of Inuit youth in the community of Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. An Inuit steering committee was formed with youth, adults, and one elder. The steering committee led this project in the community, informing community members of progress and helping direct all aspects of the study from research questions to methods to data collection to dissemination. A structured interview used across sites allowed youth to describe what matters to them, that is, what is at stake for them in terms of challenges and successes. Developing stable and secure relationships with one's friends and family members enabled Inuit youth to become more resilient in the face of stresses related to social change in the Canadian Arctic.

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Constructed and Contested Truths: Aboriginal Suicide, Law, and Colonialism in the Canadian West(s), 1823-1927

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Handcuffed protectors? Palestinian fatherhood‐protection unlocking its chains

Handcuffed protectors? Palestinian fatherhood‐protection unlocking its chains

El suicidio de indígenas desde la determinación social en salud

Tunngajuq: Stress and resilience among Inuit youth in Nunavut, Canada

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