Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide (2007)
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@MISC{Hallett07aboriginallanguage,
author = {Darcy Hallett and Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonde},
title = { Aboriginal language knowledge and youth suicide},
year = {2007}
}
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Abstract
This brief report details a preliminary investigation into how community-level variability in knowledge of Aboriginal languages relate to “band”-level measures of youth suicide. In Canada, and, more specifically, in the province of British Columbia (BC), Aboriginal youth suicide rates vary substantially from one community to another. The results reported demonstrate that not only did this simple language-use indicator prove to have predictive power over and above that of six other cultural continuity factors identified in previous research, but also that youth suicide rates effectively dropped to zero in those few communities in which at least half the band members reported a conversational knowledge of their own “Native ” language.
Keyphrases
youth suicide aboriginal language knowledge british columbia aboriginal language conversational knowledge aboriginal youth suicide rate community-level variability predictive power native language brief report detail youth suicide rate simple language-use indicator prove band member previous research preliminary investigation level measure cultural continuity factor
