1. Songs as artifacts,
2. Faith in God enables their forgiveness: how does the belief in God and in Amis ancestor co-exist? (阿美人有祖靈概念嗎?)
3. 遷徙的過程: 從美山，新莊到新竹，從打漁到打零工，這一路轉換對阿嬤個人，她的家庭以及部落代表著什麼?以及這段小歷史如何被鑲嵌在大歷史的脈絡中?
How does visualizing allows us to set the parameters to make the future vision a reality?
The first quote is “Eleven people attempted suicide in one night and the isolated Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario became Canada's most talked about story. A week later five children tried to take their owns lives too.” It shows the mental emergency is serious in Canada.
Another quote is "When we go to the health centre for example after hours the staff on duty would probably only be a nurse and an LPN, or a doctor on call or maybe an ambulance, that would be the kind of service available after hours. There is none for mental health or addictions. When families are experiencing PTSD and other stresses, they are having a really hard time, there is no one, really." It shows the lake of support of mental support is a big issue for people. Government should offer more resource for mental health and solve mental issue which is already as a state emergency.
The author use many examples of people suicide, photos, Youtube links, and links for more online reading. In addition, the narrative of people and conduct the author’s research.
The mental health is a crisis and the response is not enough for supporting. Many examples and narrative are shows the situations. Every single person have affected by the suicide and the problem was worse and worse. There were many reports about the issue but just little action for solving the problem.
The lack of resource and supporting for mental health and also little actions for the emergency. Especially in many Aboriginal communities which are high rates of poverty, ill health and family breakdown. Media reports reported that Children and youth are most at risk and influenced by these factors.
Offer more education, mental health advisory and treatment for people. Following the reports, offer more actions.
"Within the last 12 months, there have been multiple "crisis" states declared in Indigenous communities across the country, including even the entire territory of Nunavut—where 84 percent of the population are Inuit. Canadians have begun to ask what exactly is happening, but we should already know."
"What do you find 20 years ago? The same conversations we are having now about suicide. The same
conversations we are having now about the lack of mental health. The same conversations that we are
having around socio economic development,"
Research for this article was drawn mainly from other online sources such as news articles and youtube videos, and new research conducted by the author such as interviews with officials and locals in the affected areas.
Amerindian populations in Canada have been plauged with mental illness and suicide for many decades, and even though there were studies done and extensive research available, there was very little done to respond to this crisis, allowing it to keep reoccuring.