https://padlet.com/david_mcgill1/dra05ar3wqsh en-us 2017-04-06 13:58:27 UTC 2017-05-08 19:21:26 UTC hello@padlet.com david_mcgill1 https://padlet.com/david_mcgill1/dra05ar3wqsh/wish/165168782 The text Drug Abuse Major Concern Among First Nations and Inuits talks about how drugs in the native community are extremely common and harmful. This can cause people to very easily become addicted to illicit substances and can lead to abuse. Abuse can be verbal or physical and can vary in every situation. Another problem that can happen is if the person consuming drugs is pregnant it can be very detrimental to the baby's house. Babies can get deformities or can be born addicted to drugs. The government is currently doing a bunch of different campaigns to try and help first nations deal with substance abuse issues. The government realizes that these campaigns have to be embraced by the community for them to work effectively. I believe that the most important thing that can be done is to inform people and give them opportunity to succeed. If first nations communities are presented with all of the information about how harmful substance abuse is, I believe that it could lower the rate of substance abuse. The reason that it is important to present first nations communities with opportunities is because if people have goals and are working towards something, they will have a lot less time to think about alcohol and drugs. Both the government and myself have similar views on what should be done to help these communities.  ]]> 2017-04-06 15:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/david_mcgill1/dra05ar3wqsh/wish/165168782 david_mcgill1 https://padlet.com/david_mcgill1/dra05ar3wqsh/wish/167913665 In the article “Native Americans’ Facebook accounts suspended for using ‘false names’” it talks about how certain first nations are being kicked off Facebook for having “fake names”. In the article it gives several examples of first nations that have been kicked off Facebook, one of these people is named Shane Creepingbear. He took to Twitter on Columbus Day to express his frustration with Facebook. In his tweets he said “Hey yall today I was kicked off of Facebook for having a fake name. Happy Columbus Day great job #facebook #goodtiming#racist #ColumbusDay” This is quite close minded of Facebook as they are not the people that get to choose what is and what is not a name. I believe that facebook needs to update their software because at the moment it seems slightly racist that they do not accept certain names. Facebook does not determine what is and what is not a name. They should open allow more names than are currently allowed and even if your name is not allowed by facebook there should be a very easy way for you to prove that it is a real name. The article and I agreed on the fact that this seems slightly racist and that change needs to happen. We disagree on what should happen to fix it as the article thinks all names should be allowed and I think there should still be some sort of criteria but overall we have similar views.

]]> 2017-04-24 17:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/david_mcgill1/dra05ar3wqsh/wish/167913665 david_mcgill1 https://padlet.com/david_mcgill1/dra05ar3wqsh/wish/170607948 In the article “Canada leading global study looking at best ways to prevent Inuit suicide” talks about the issues of native groups living in the arctic having very high suicide rates. The things that contribute to this are lack of opportunities and the weather. When you live in a very northern part of the world it can be very hard to find working opportunities that you care about and want to pursue with a passion. When people don’t have any reason to get up in the morning because they don’t have a job that they like they can become very depressed very easily. This can lead to depression and even suicide if it goes on long enough. This can also lead to substance abuse issues. These substance abuse issues can cause depression to become worse and make suicide rates even higher. 

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