Eleven people tried taking their own lives on Saturday. This is a catastrophe that Canada should occupy seen comingThe Attawapiskat First Nation,or the people of the parting rocks, as they are known in their indigenous Swampy Cree language, or number roughly 2000 souls. They live on a small Indian reserve 600 miles north of the Canadian capital of Ottawa,at the mouth of James Bay’s Attawapiskat River. This subarctic First Nation declared a state of emergency after 11 community members tried to take their own lives Saturday night.
Since final September, more than 100 Attawapiskat people occupy attempted suicide in what local MP Charlie Angus has described as a “rolling nightmare” of a winter. The ghastly toll reveals a grim reality with which a nation in the midst of a process of truth and reconciliation now must reckon.
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Source: theguardian.com