149. Gellnerian Seminar

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

149. Gellnerian Seminar

Original language description

Michael Kral, Associate Professor School of Social Work, Wayne State University The Return of the Sun: Suicide and Suicide Prevention among Inuit in Arctic Canada Indigenous peoples in the Arctic, including Canadian Inuit, have among the highest suiciderates in the world. It is primarily male youth who are killing themselves. The suicides began in the mid-1980s, and the rate continues to increase with 2013 being the worst year to date. Inuit lived in traditional family camps on the land until the 1960s, when the Canadian government took control of their lives. Inuit were moved into crowded settlements run by white government workers and their children were taken away to residential/boarding and day schools. A cash economy was started that with very few jobs created poverty. Older Inuit attribute their social problems to when they were moved to the settlements. Yet Inuit have begun to reclaim control over their lives, including having an Inuit political territory called Nunavut. Commun

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

W - Workshop organization

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Praha

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

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Total number of attendees

15

Foreign attendee count

2

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce