Indigenous people have the highest suicide rates out of any group of people

[123die]

Since colonization, forced relocation, and land theft, suicide rates of Indigenous people, especially youth, have gone up by such intense proportions, many Indigenous communities/nations around the world have declared states of emergency based directly on how many of our youth are dying at their own hands. A few years ago, seven girls from Poplar Hills First Nation and Wapekeka First Nation killed themselves. Their names were Amy Owen, Chantell Fox, Alayna Moose, Kanina Sue Turtle, Jolynn Winter, Jenera Roundsky, and Jeannie Grace Brown. All of them were fifteen and under. Indigenous people have higher rates of addiction, poverty, and mental illness than any other group of people. Because the white man saw us, thought we were wrong, decided because we were wrong that they had more right to our land than we did, took our land, killed most of us, and put the rest of us in residential schools, or tried to assimilate us into Western culture. And the pain of this has endured through generations. I am a statistic. I am an Indigenous person who has mental illness and may or may not be dead by the end of the week. Because my heart hurts too much. And no one seems to want to do what I need them to so that maybe my heart could heal one day.

 

[Psilo]

I heard alot of this in documentaries. It's the kind of thing western civilization will never erase from history. Everybody knows it, but nobody aknowledges it. It's something that has never caught worlwide attention.

I'm truely sorry for all the sorrow and discrimination your people endured.

 

[Redt2go]

I hope sometimes you feel like a human too

 

[123die]

I heard alot of this in documentaries. It's the kind of thing western civilization will never erase from history. Everybody knows it, but nobody aknowledges it. It's something that has never caught worlwide attention.

I'm truely sorry for all the sorrow and discrimination your people endured.

It has actually. When Justin Trudeau was running for prime minister, one of his promises was that he would be making reconciliation a priority. Idk if u know Canadian politics, but he's done anything but that. Including stealing our land for the purpose to gas lines. Stealing more of our land. Again.

 

[123die]

I hope sometimes you feel like a human too

Thank you

 

[Johnnythefox]

Because the white man saw us, thought we were wrong, decided because we were wrong that they had more right to our land than we did, took our land, killed most of us, and put the rest of us in residential schools, or tried to assimilate us into Western culture.

I commented on a post a while back that the white man has a lot of blood on his hands, it didn't go down too well with some people.
I am angered by the way indigenous people have suffered throughout history in order to sate the white man's greed.


[URL="https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/the-toxic-hate-and-oppression-will-never-end.11123/#post-212245"]The toxic hate and oppression will never end[/URL]

 

[bubbletea]

It's really not fair.

 

[JustAboutDone]

I am sorry @123die, it is a poor state of affairs when indigenous people are railroaded by land grab and greed. It is one of the reasons why I won't accept my Knighthood, because I am afraid I don't believe in the British Empire.

 

[JustAboutDone]

Knighthood? what's this, nearly done? You've been offered a knighthood?

Lollll!!! I mean if I was offered one for services for scoffing chocolate