Thursday, January 10, 2013

Tribes Take on Youth Suicide With Skits, Ceremonies and Mustangs

Indian Country
On the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, youngsters perform skits they hope will lower their tribe’s youth-suicide rate. Playing with mustangs helps prevent self-harm among the children of the Gila River Indian Community. On the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, tribal members who’ve lost family to suicide heal by grieving together. In each of those communities, youngsters kill themselves at a rate at least triple the United States average.