Researchers who studied three generations of mothers and their children from the community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario, have concluded that sustained exposure to the toxic metal helped cause a suicide rate three times higher than any other First Nations community – which are already far higher than among the country’s general population.

  • @dangblingus
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    11 year ago

    These are Indigenous Canadians for starters, and resilient against suicide? My brother in Christ, they’ve been brutalized by the Canadian government for hundreds of years. Generational trauma is their normal.

    • @kemsat
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, I looked it up, it was from the Amazon, so different natives.