Choosing life : special report on suicide among aboriginal people

Canada Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. (Author). Canada Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. (Added Author).

Summary: In 172 days of public hearings held in 96 communities across Canada, the Royal Commission heard few issues discussed with such pain - and such determination to make change - as suicide. Commissioners are left in no doubt that the harrowing stories of shootings, hangings, drug overdoses and teen death-pacts recounted in the national media are only a shadow of the full problem of self-destructive behaviour among aboriginal people. We are convinced that current high rates of attempted and completed suicides in the First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples - and the threat of new episodes - constitute an immediate crisis in human and public policy terms.

Record details

ISBN: 0660158019
ISBN: 9780660158013
Physical Description: x, 135 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Ottawa, ON : Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, c1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Co-chairpersons: RenGe Dussault, Georges Erasmus. Cf. P. [iii]. Issued also in French under title: Choisir la vie, un rapport spGecial sur le suicide chez les autochtones. Co-chairpersons: René Dussault, Georges Erasmus. Cf. P. [iii]. Issued also in French under title: Choisir la vie, un rapport spécial sur le suicide chez les autochtones.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references: p. 131-135.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface - Why write a special report on suicide among aboriginal people? -- Suicide among aboriginal people: the crisis and the hope -- How serious is the problem of suicide among aboriginal people? -- Why are there so many suicides among aboriginal people? -- Saving their own lives: aboriginal communities take charge -- Barriers and solutions -- A proposal for fundamental change -- A special report on suicide: a minority view.