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you al-jazeera english streaming live on the egypt channel. plus thousands of our programs will be tweeting documentaries and you didn't answer. subscribe to eugene who would slash al-jazeera english. hi anthony ok welcome to the stream that home edition today who yell focusing on the high suicide rate of indigenous people in canada is a 3 times the rate of no need to check this canadians for people who are young adolescent and below the age of 44 why is that and what is being done that is what we're tackling today on you tube me she's got questions for i guess so clemenceau experiences we would love to hear from you and you too could be part of today's

discussion. i am going to say hello to the guest the guests to introduce themselves to you hi larry cells welcome to the string to our international audience who you are. from up our. member of a department in ontario florida writing ok right now going i'm originally from people should it it's good to have you had a town yet great to have you in the stream tell everybody who knew well what. this is and in time is hiking is the costs my name is tanya i live in toronto my mom and her family are from fort william 1st nation which is under bay ontario and i am a journalist author and a speaker storyteller. thank you for being in the stream and tristen welcome to the

stream tell everybody who you are. hello everybody my name is coast center oser i am a 24 year old musician who currently resides in thompson manitoba i keep central and remote communities and i am also a photographer and a writer. and the young activist from cisco northants the sketch show and. looking for to hearing from you all but 1st i want to go back to the september 2017 when justin trudeau prime minister of canada was very open about some of the issues with indigenous communities in canada he's a remind of what he said there are today children living on reserve in canada who cannot safely drink bay then or even play in the water that comes out of their towns. there are

indigenous care parents in canada who say goodnight to their children and have to cross their fingers in the hopes that their kids won't run away or take their own lives in the night. tanya that was very candid standing right down front of the united nations general assembly who 3 years ago. says an awareness is a knowledge about suicides amongst indigenous and service nation communities in canada and where has that awareness taken captive what's changed what's different. so. how more people i think are talking about what's happening in our communities from coast to coast to coast with our use there is more of an awareness but it is nowhere near enough you know that was in 2017 our prime minister stood at the

united nations and he told the world that our children do not have access to clean water in our communities in some of our northern communities he told the world that there are parents that worry if their children are going to be there the next day why is that it's because our children sadly many of our people are treated like 2nd class citizens on their own lands you know we have communities where there is no boy there is no clean running water there is no working sewage system we have communities where there is a lack of housing where we have one to sri generations are living together in cramped quarters we have children that do not have access to high school that's a fundamental right of any child growing up in canada has the right to access a high school education but for our kids many live in communities where they have

to get on a plane and travel 50600 congress away from their parents when they're 1314 or 15 just to go to high school you know. our our people as well are struggling oftentimes to get into the job market all of these factors contribute to why it is our children are taking their lives with their own hands you know this also feeds into a lack of what the world health organization calls the determinants of health what we need to grow healthy children and it's not rocket science you heard prime minister justin trudeau talking about what is happening with our kids and yet we have still failed to address all of these issues. so just before we went on and we got an e-mail she got an e-mail and it came from i'm going to show you here on my laptop from the office of the minister of indigenous services it was a very very long email but i'm just picking

a little treat here we know that part of improving mental wellness in 1st nations in your communities means providing better access just fake to sustainable and appropriate services and the email goes on and on and all i'm going to leave this with you see you can finish reading this on screen for a little bit but so do you feel that the ministry of indigenous services really undisturbed and this critical issue of suicide among its 1st nations people in canada i do see evidence of it. it's unfortunate to say that you know those sort of quick words are good good things too in order to say but when you wake up about complacency of you know the government so on that the response of mental health that this for. children and adolescents and and businesspeople it's in general there is no action and

there is limited i who like you know when we talk about suicide strategies the suicide strategy and across the country across the province are you know can release none of that exists and. i think it's important to understand as well you know the very kind of those history of communism. you know oppression racism and that's the government's policies that say about you know. assimilated in this people is you know in the last the and that and the end you see the lasting effects and they continue to cause distress and marginalization of endless communities across the country so. it's really you know you know these tools were in place to colonize indigenous peoples including through resit was such as residential schools you know posture care system and you know of course relocation these are tools that are still in play and to be complacent to you know

try to do things and then a. separate segregated way that's not work that we need to bring about the power and the authority to the comedians whereby it's not done in the. top level it should be public release up and community we have to support the communities and the issues that they want to try to address the many issues that they face and. you know they're just nor will they be able to change the issues that are happening. she said i want to play this clip. it's from don't jarvis switch. in a few seconds too generous sums up what life is like the new many 1st nations communities he sends up why the suicide rates would be so high have a listen seemed really interesting but we have to say often. when i think about

suicide in indigenous communities across canada a number of actions come to mind regarding the federal government 1st should be access to suit drinking water in every indigenous community across this nation secondly access to affordable and healthy foods must be a priority for northern rural remote and reserve communities through canada thirdly the chronic underfunding in the education between indigenous and non-indigenous students across canada must be addressed each of these basic human rights and social determinants of all must adequately be addressed before we even begin to move forward on a national strategy toward indigenous communities and the suicide epidemic being based just on guy. i agree with him i teach federal and a community north of thompson manitoba called linley and since the eighty's they

haven't have clean drinking water there's an abandoned mine and tailings ponds millions of pounds of it leaked into their water supply and so when i turn on the taps the water isn't often brown color not something you should see coming out of the tap and that's full of metals and i had spoke to a teacher in this community who said that. there's so many parents that grew up with this being the norm that there are a lot of children in teens and youth today that are drinking the water because they they never knew any other or any other stories and they just see it as normal. every when i go i usually take some water with me and also in this community there is there's a lot of kind of sporadic attendance of school. education for our indigenous people in canada is something that is very important as we move forward and address the inequality is and our situations but it's also

a context in which we were very severely harmed because of the residential school systems that a lot of our people were forcibly sent to to be assimilated and and indoctrinated. so that relationship still needs repairing. and i am an optimist i know there are a lot of young indigenous people getting into education my mom and t.'s and and people in my family are teachers and principals and have dedicated a lot of their time to education so i understand the importance but on a whole a lot of our young people are still angry at school at the system and a lot of their parents' eyes are still dealing with parents and also themselves that have been trapped by ties that setting and and i'm hoping that something that that where we're going to begin to address and move forward from i'm an optimist

but at the same time having lived and northern substantial and traveled in various parts of northern manitoba i know that we still have a very long way to go i see i see poverty i see young people that are getting into lives of gangs and the violence that they perpetrate and i see some southern. educators from city as are ontario who move into northern 1st nations communities only teach for a brief 3 or 4 years to get a bit of experience and then leave to go teach somewhere else in a city where there's better access to things. so it gets a. beatrice and so it so to bump into me that i want to share some comments and review guess all of you from the mutu secretly lazy says about the canadian government it's all words and no action to the media how is it that the government

cannot solve this problem while we are talking about a group that makes up 4.9 percent of the population shot c 100 examples the prime minister talks a good game but his actions always fall short this is very much the case with indigenous people. let's talk about tangible actions that can happen i don't want to spend the entire shut to hear about the issues in the root cause is one some of the things that you are seeing as i know you talk about this you talk about the suicide rate of young people young indigenous people you have gone around canada so people are aware of it it's not a surprise that he's not breaking news them what do you then say. it is not breaking news i know you know netherlands very. yes. when people say well what can we do what should be done just. exactly you know i just

wanted to back up a 2nd and serve. on to what tristen was saying because you know the reason and what sol was saying too because the reason why we talk about all of these things is not just to provide context and you know to keep talking about all of the harms that have happened to all of our people but it's also to show that we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are for instance like i am an honest person. and as a notion of a person and i believe that i am connected to the land i believe i'm connected to the air and to the water and to all of the things around us and that is for every indigenous person we feel that connection and when that connection is lost due to residential school due to the fact that we don't know our own stories that we don't have access to water to to to growing healthy children our children become

sick our children take their lives and we have to foster you know we have to foster in our kids that sense of belonging that sense of pride in who they are as 1st nations kids and use and letting them know that they can do anything that they put their minds to they have to know that they're loved and that they belong and that the land matters and that they matter we have to give our kids that pride and that love and you know when you ask what can be done that to me is something that can be done that is what needs to be done is showing our kids how much their lives and how much they need to know that they belong and how can we do that we can do than through a number of ways you know not only through education of our own chance from our own people but also through the lens getting to land based teaching. learning language again learning what matters what stories make you the person you are and that comes from land based learning there is no magic potion there's

nothing that i could tell you that will make things better but i do know that access to land and belonging and loves and who we are will help. i want to bring in another voice into our conversation the samantha multan i love the telly talk about young people because it isn't exactly the direction it's not things going in as well have a listen. in order to see the end of additional suicide we need to be prioritizing the voices of indigenous young people for instance school boards need to essential the voice sent to the leadership of indigent some people in a way that they're actually holding themselves accountable to indigenous learners some school boards have indigenous student trustee positions but these positions all have voting power so i do understand what the point of that is for their more school boards need to be prioritizing hiring indigenous educators if they're

finding that they're not getting a lot of indigenous teachers in their school system they need to question why that is and what systems need to change in order to rectify that because it is key to the success of indigenous learners to have indigenous teachers in the classroom chris and this is your cue this is. a publication this year that talked about a protest that you held last year because what you wanted to do was to get lawmakers in your region to consider suicide to be a public health threat and this is your part of your protest here your company you're camping out. and you're doing it as a political protests sauced on the lawn of says got to go on the legislature and hear the speech. of those people who. took their own life's

and you took action to make sure people understood what this actually meant what did you achieve what difference does this make. well it made it part of the public conversation the issue of indigenous suicide within the province of saskatchewan which as of now is the leading cause of death for a large demographic of people and our region and this was important because we were just before an election the election pam and. and. november and this protest fast ceremony happened and the summer and so we got it into the public consciousness for our province. we made it very talked about and discussed the issue and i was hoping that there would have been an impact on the concerns people brought to their emulates on how they voted and on what types of leaders we wanted to elect into the halls of power and what their priorities were.

so i knew. what you were doing is with communities who also impacted by code 19 how was that has the pandemic changed an already quite difficult and challenging situation with people. day after hope that they should continue to have a a young life that should continue and that they do have prospects in and that there is a lifestyle change to have it sexual or locally the governments are trying to make for them in their communities. over the nominee. since quit itself. i think over the last few months since last. march there certainly has been and increase in the suicide and

unnecessary suffering needless that's in our communities expression i know within the 1st 3 weeks of the law. and order and nontrivial back in march 2020 and you know within 33 weeks 4 weeks there was you know at least 3 or 4 suicides in plenty communities where were the community i represent so certainly when you keep. students youth you know and they're very confined way when they have to stay home and and when there is no supports and then we have to understand that these are some of these homes are overcrowded and there is limited access to resources such as mental health services and clinical services for these type of. service i don't really need it because it's not all services are readily available on the flank to be in the cells and i think

we need to be able to bring. services closer to home especially mental health services for children and adolescents and that there are it's an ongoing issue and and what's. and we're too focused on a covert 19 sometimes we look at the other services such as mental health care how is that so critical and we cannot we cannot wait. makes a lot of sense i want to play one more voice in tackling. this is what you told us about it and it's. i am expression troubled by the large number of young indigenous people who give up hope and decide death is are only and their best option i am distraught that once it was signed in the community has so often prompted

a rash of others we do not have numbers but the past year 2020 but it would not surprise me to find out that rates of self harm among indigenous people increased in the world was hit by kofi at 19 a survey conducted by n whack last spring found that indigenous women people who were already found to be targets of a genocide were being subjected to even greater levels of violence as they were confined to their homes and deprived of normal support during the pen demick. when you think about real work as a storyteller it's such an agreement job that you have what keeps you going what motivates you even when there are hurdles like a global pandemic what keeps you going. for asking the question you know. tristen keeps me going so keeps me going members of our communities that stand up

and try to show over a forward and give hope you know that's the only saying sometimes it feels like we can do is try and hold each other out tends to instill that sense of love and belonging in our use and all of our people because these are hard times that in what. weathering was saying was absolutely 100 percent true you know during this pandemic we were supposed to see rollout of a national action plan aimed at reducing violence against women are women and are girls and that got put on a shelf due to cohabit 19 or that's what the government said but this is after years of state government and years of the national enquirer into murdered missing editions women and girls you know there's so much work that needs to be done and

when you ask me how do i keep going i look at all the people around me is that are doing the same type of work and trying to make change and it's going to take a lot of political will to make that change. tanya and so and tristan and you cheapest thank you for your conversation that's been a lot of it through this past 25 minutes when she said was 10 years old he started playing the fiddle at the new rules of people who took their lives he's still playing is so beautiful i thought it was appropriate to enter a show in that way tristan would you pass out please sir this is i'm 80 federal can come. from manitoba.

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