4/18/2016 10:28:00cide Attempts Among Canada’s Indigenous Population – Huffington Post

More than 100 of Attawapiskat’s 2,000 members have tried to end their lives in the last seven months, including 11 youth on Saturday alone.

Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. In this edition, we speak with Dr. Rod McCormick about the alarming number of suicide attempts throughout Canada’s aboriginal communities.

“I didn’t know that people cared about me, But people do care,” 13-year-old Amy Hookimaw wrote in a widely shared Facebook post on Friday, after she was taken to a hospital in northern Ontario’s tiny Attawapiskat community for experiencing suicidal thoughts. Ever since another 13-year-old girl from the community claimed her own life, many of her friends also wanted to die, Hookimaw explained.

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