Suicide Among Teens

Suicide among Native American teens are high, the rate is three times more than national averages. For Native-American males the rate is seven times more than other Americans. Annually twelve out of hundred teens killed themselves.  The Native American teens are between 15-24 years-olds. Some areas the tribes established a suicide prevention camp for teens that abused alcohol and drugs, bullied, and unloved.  In the Northwest where I live statistics show forty percent of males that committed suicide consumed alcohol. Boys and men have a harder time than the girls and ladies. Young girls were having babies, so they had to stay on top of everything else like school, chores and taking care of elders and brothers and sisters. Men on the other had a hard time finding or keeping a job. To hunt you need money and many people don’t have the money go out and hunt geese, moose, caribou, and seal. In the article Maniilaq Association and a few other companies developed camps to tried and help the teens. In some cases it helped, but in others the teens took their own live

Where I live we are number for so many things. Suicide and aids are two things you will find that are spreading like a wild fire. In four months the Northwest had four deaths relating to suicide, in all these deaths alcohol was involved. I wish there is a way to end this ongoing tragedy. We all need to make a change and turn the leaf. Where I grew up child were abused they don't have anyone to turn to and they think it's the way out, but it's not. Another reason teens would commit suicide is because of bullying. Then their problems would just keep adding up and they may think they don't belong in this world.

Woodard, S. (2013, January 17). Alaska Natives Tackle Youth Suicide With Lessons From the Land. Retrieved November 2014, from http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/01/17/alaska-natives-tackle-youth-suicide-lessons-land-147028