Decades of mercury exposure has been linked to the high youth suicide rates in an Indigenous community in Canada
theguardian.com
Researchers who studied three generations of mothers and their children from the community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario, have concluded that sustained exposure to the toxic metal helped cause a suicide rate three times higher than any other First Nations community – which are already far higher than among the country’s general population.
Aren’t native Americans like famously resilient against suicide?
Resilient??! What are you trying to say exactly, what is your point?
As in they don’t usually give in to that? Thought I saw that before, that suicide was way more of an old world thing. Might have been about Amazon natives though.
Oh! That word means the opposite of what you thought.
These are Indigenous Canadians for starters, and resilient against suicide? My brother in Christ, they've been brutalized by the Canadian government for hundreds of years. Generational trauma is their normal.
Yeah, I looked it up, it was from the Amazon, so different natives.