https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3 Made with an aura of mystery en-us 2017-04-07 13:01:45 UTC 2017-05-23 16:14:46 UTC hello@padlet.com benjamin_nicolucci https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3/wish/165373799 NAHO published a document about the growing concern of drug abuse in native communities giving stats and figures about what the problem along with stating possible solutions to reduce the abuse of drugs in each community. A survey states that 60% of people in native communities are addicted to a drug between the ages of 10-24. The main abused drugs in these communities are cannabis, cocaine, and solvents. 26.7% of adults in aboriginal communities used marijuana between 2002-2003 compared to the general population where only 14% used marijuana in the past year. Along with this drug abuse, other types of abuse follows, physically violent abuse along with sexual abuse is some of the different types of abuse that is seen in aboriginal communities because of drugs. NAHO says that there is not a one size fits all solution for this drug problem found in adolescence in aboriginal communities and that it is up to each community to start their own program in order to decrease drug dependency.  Health Canada has created a 5 year $10 million dollar Health plan in order to end addiction in the aboriginal community. Before starting this article ]]> 2017-04-07 13:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3/wish/165373799 benjamin_nicolucci https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3/wish/167478150 Mark thisThe power of sport is an article about Waneek Horn- Miller who is an active member of the Mohawk aboriginal community in quebec. She was part of the womens polo team in the Sydney Summer Olympics and the only aboriginal on the team. In this Article she answers questions about her experiences as an aboriginal in the olympics, The Okik Crisisthat she was a part of and how she is an advocate for health in aboriginal communities. Waneek speaks about her child hood and how her mother was one of the key influences in her and her sisters life. She speaks to how her mother was a strong advocate of aboriginal rights and pushed Waneek and her sister to try their hardest in evrthing they did especially sports and ecidemics in the hope she would prepare Waneek to face the real world and the stereo types around aboriginal people and their culture. In 1990 Oka which is a small town in Quebec started to build a golf course and town houses on Mohawk buriel grounds. The Governments had been ignoring the Mohawks clames of the land. The Mohawk tribes came together and baracked the land leading to a stand off between the canadian military and the aborignal people of the area. This conflict lasted 78 days. Waneek took part in this crisis, and was stabbed by a soldiers bayonet which she described as a horrific experience in which she developed post tramatic stress. Waneek explains if it wasn't for her will and love for sports she wouldn't know where she would be today. When reading this part of the article I linked her experience to my first Free read about teen aboriginals and there link to alchohal and drug abuse. My first free read the author talks about how high drug abuse is in aboriginal communities and many fall to drugs because of the amount of hard ship and stress they face. Waneek faced the same adversity as others but used her drive and love of sports to push her to become and olympiantory and fight against her post tramatic stress from the okik crisis. Waneek story follows stereo types fo what goes on in aborignal communties and what the rest of the population hears about, but her story takes a different turn and becomes a story that should be told to push more aboriginal citzens like waneek to fight against drug abuse in their communities and end the stereotypes around aboriginal people.]]> 2017-04-21 13:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3/wish/167478150 benjamin_nicolucci https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3/wish/173434982 Canada is leading an international effort to pull together the most effective ways to prevent suicide among aboriginal youth in the Arctic, an ongoing tragedy across the circumpolar world. This month, officials from the eight countries that ring the North Pole gave final approval for researchers to visit northern aboriginal communities to study how they’re dealing with the problem. Nunavut’s chief coroner called a special inquiry in January after 45 people killed themselves in 2013 — a significant increase from the previous high of 34. That record number put the territory’s suicide rate at 13 1/2 times the national average. But it’s bad elsewhere, too. Suicide rates among Alaskan aboriginals are about three times the United States average. In Greenland, 2010 government data reported about one suicide a week in a population of about 56,000. Statistics in Norway, Sweden and Finland for the aboriginal Saami population are difficult to tease out. But available data suggests suicide and mental health are issues in their communities as well. "I think that’s clearly why the Saami health leadership as well as the government of Norway is supportive of this project," said Malcolm King, science director for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which is co-ordinating the project. Teams are already at work in the participating countries of Canada, the U.S., Norway, Sweden and Denmark, King said.]]> 2017-05-23 16:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/benjamin_nicolucci/2xpsz8bqxfv3/wish/173434982