An Unpleasant Truth About Youth Suicide?

Joe Flood, an English teacher at Pine Ridge, tells an important story.

Suicide epidemics come to the Pine Ridge reservation every few years with varying degrees of national media attention and local soul-searching. What the news media often misses though, and what tribal members understand but rarely discuss, is that youth suicides here are inextricably linked to a multigenerational scourge of sexual abuse.

This is an insightful and important essay that has relevance to First Nations people and other youth suicides.

Read: What’s Lurking Behind the Suicides?

May 17, 2015 New York Times