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Attawapiskat déclare l’état d’urgence après 39 tentatives de suicide depuis le 1er mars
▻http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/2016/04/10/001-attawapiskat-suicide-crise.shtml

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Indigenous suicide is not just a mental-health problem

Conditions on reserves lag behind those in the rest of Canada in more respects than just suicide and health: Unemployment, lack of access to education and substandard infrastructure are factors too. Attawapiskat declared a state of emergency five years ago over a housing crisis that James Anaya, then UN Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples, said “seems to represent the condition of many First Nation communities living on reserves throughout Canada, which is allegedly akin to Third World conditions.”

Studies have pointed to economic hardships and the legacy of colonialism as key factors in high indigenous suicide rates. The January Statscan study, for instance – which reviewed findings from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey and the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey – found a strong connection between residential-school experience and suicidal thoughts. Doing more to prevent suicide was one of the recommendations of last June’s report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said in a statement regarding the Attawapiskat suicide crisis that improving the wellness of indigenous peoples will require a focus on improving the socioeconomic conditions they face. “I have worked with the province to set up a joint action table so that federal and provincial governments can work together, hand-in-hand with First Nations leadership, to find concrete solutions,” Ms. Philpott said.

Canadian Attawapiskat First Nation suicide emergency

-isolated First Nation tribe in Kenora District, northern Ontario, Canada
–population around 2,000 on the reserve
former chief Theresa Spence had a hunger strike in 2013 to protest over the Canadian government not providing enough money, education and health care for the tribe
– had a state of emergency in 2011, the third in three years, due to low temperatures and insufficient housing

▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36012578

#santé #inégalités #santé_mentale #canada #natifs #désespoir

Canada’s native peoples protest chronic poverty and government attacks - World Socialist Web Site

Résistance et révolte des peuples premiers du Canada contre le gouvernement

►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/31/cana-d31.html

Canada’s native peoples protest chronic poverty and government attacks

By Carl Bronski
31 December 2012

The last weeks of 2012 have seen protests by Canada’s impoverished native population snowball.

As Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger strike aimed at drawing attention to the federal government’s failure to honor native treaty rights, aboriginal peoples across the country continue a series of road and rail blockades, demonstrations, and sympathy hunger strikes in what has become known as the “Idle No More” movement. This mobilization, although initially unassociated with Spence’s protest, has dovetailed with the Chief’s actions and served to highlight recent Conservative government actions aimed at opening up vast swathes of native land for capitalist resource-extraction projects.

Canada First Nations

Pour avoir une petite idée des combats que sont en train de mener les Nations premières canadiennes. Très intéressant, et franchement pour ce qui me concerne, total respect.

Idle No More
►http://idlenomore1.blogspot.ca

Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the spirit and intent of the treaty relationship, work towards justice in action, and protect Mother Earth.

►http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/7742751.bin

IdleNoMore in Historical Context
►http://decolonization.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/idlenomore-in-historical-context

Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity at the core of the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991. I offer this short analysis of the historical context that led to RCAP in an effort to get a better sense of the transformative political possibilities in our present moment of struggle.

Idle No More: Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger speaks to all of us
►http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/12/idle-no-more-chief-theresa-spences-hunger-speaks-all-us
By Naomi Klein

I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold — the second of his short life — and his blocked nose frightens him. I was about to get up when he started snoring again. I, on the other hand, was wide-awake. A single thought entered my head: Chief Theresa Spence is hungry. Actually it wasn’t a thought. It was a feeling. The feeling of hunger. Lying in my dark room, I pictured the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation lying on a pile of blankets in her teepee across from Parliament Hill, entering day 14 of her hunger strike.

Canada’s First Nations protest heralds a new alliance
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/canada-first-nations-new-alliance

Canada’s placid winter surface has been broken by unprecedented protests by its aboriginal peoples. In just a few weeks, a small campaign launched against the Conservative government’s budget bill by four aboriginal women has expanded and transformed into a season of discontent: a cultural and political resurgence.

Support growing for First Nations blockade of CN Rail line in Sarnia: group
►http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Support+growing+First+Nations+blockade+Rail+line+Sarnia+group/7742700/story.html

People from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and supporters gather for a meeting with officials as their blockade of the CN St. Clair spur line that began Friday, continues in Sarnia, Ont. A member of a southwestern Ontario First Nation blockading a CN Rail line in Sarnia says gestures of support are flooding in as the protest reaches its fifth day. Ron Plain of the Aamjiwnaang (AWN’-ja-nong) First Nation says.

Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents
►http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1306869--chief-theresa-spence-s-hunger-strike-has-full-backing-of-attawapis

Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents. Chief Theresa Spence’s home is smack-dab in the middle of this tiny, remote First Nation: a large, yellow trailer that was always bustling, with people coming in and congregating outside.
There is no one here now except a teenage girl house-sitting.

#canada #peuples-autochtones #nations-premières #résistances