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Global Overview: Indigenous Suicide Rates

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The article was published on 2018-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Indigenous.

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Blak, Bi+ and Borderlands: An Autoethnography on Multiplicities of Indigenous Queer Identities Using Borderland Theory

TL;DR: This article explored the challenges of living between worlds as well as the difficulties in gaining acceptance from multiple cultures using borderland theory and highlighted the power of narrative as it reflected the nuanced experiences of Indigenous queer people with identity multiplicity via the application of borderland theories.
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Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ issues in primary initial teacher education programs

TL;DR: This article explored the existing research and advocate for the embedding of a critical pedagogy of care in primary Initial Teacher Education (ITE) curricula, inclusive of diversity of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender and sexuality.

Fact Sheet 1 A Global and National Overview of Suicide and Indigenous Suicide.

TL;DR: There were an estimated 793,000 suicide deaths worldwide representing an annual global age-standardised suicide rate of 10.5 per 100,000 population in 2016.
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Causes of death in the Sami population of Sweden, 1961–2000

TL;DR: The similarities in mortality patterns are probably a result of centuries of close interaction between the Sami and the non-Sami, while the observed differences might be due to lifestyle, psychosocial and/or genetic factors.
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Suicide among Indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway, 1970-1998.

TL;DR: Clusters of suicides in Sami core area may explain the increased suicide mortality found in subgroups among indigenous Sami.
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‘‘We are like lemmings’’: making sense of the cultural meaning(s) of suicide among the indigenous Sami in Sweden

TL;DR: Findings indicate that Sami in Sweden make sense of suicide in relation to power and identity within a threatened Sami cultural context.
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Increasing Indigenous self-harm and suicide in the Kimberley: an audit of the 2005-2014 data

TL;DR: This audit presents evidence of high rates of suicide and self-harm in Indigenous people of the Kimberley region, and highlights the need for multidisciplinary, culturally appropriate, innovative and youth-focused approaches to suicide prevention activities.
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