Dying to please you : Indigenous suicide in contemporary Canada

Chrisjohn, Roland David (author.). McKay, Shaunessy M., (author.). Smith, Andrea O., (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 1926886461
ISBN: 9781926886466
Physical Description: xv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Publisher: Penticton, BC : Theytus Books Ltd., [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Everything old is old again -- "Death does not end a relationship" -- A thousand words on Indian suicide -- The broken Indian -- The devil in the details : preliminary considerations -- Cleaning up beforehand -- What is suicide? -- Formal definitions of suicide -- Suicide typologies -- Summary -- Double, double, toilet trouble : research, theory, and practice in Indigenous suicide -- Suicide research -- Suicide theory -- Suicide practice -- Conclusions -- Toward an historical and materialist approach to Indigenous suicide : background -- Preliminaries -- Sociological models of Indigenous suicide -- Indigenous suicide in Durkheim's terms -- A curious, bizarre application of Durkheim -- Durkheim's model as ideology -- Durkheim's follies -- Durkheim's Vardøger -- Help wanted -- Not to be ... -- Introduction -- Back to broken Indian mountain -- A myth of our own -- The importance of alienation -- Shed a little light -- What is to be done? -- Raiders of the Temple Crusade -- Economic development : salvation or salivation? -- The elephant in our room -- References -- Appendix 1. Bearing the burden of proof : theory and practice in First Nations suicidology -- Appendix 2. An historic non-apology, completely and utterly not accepted.