Privileging Aboriginal voices: Applied theatre as a transformative process for Aboriginal Australian youth

"Rebuilding our community": hearing silenced voices on Aboriginal youth suicide.

This paper brings forth the voices of adult Aboriginal First Nations community members who gathered in focus groups to discuss the problem of youth suicide on their reserves. Our approach emphasizes multilevel (e.g., individual, family, and broader ecological systems) factors viewed by participants as relevant to youth suicide. Wheaton's conceptualization of stressors and Evans-Campbell's multi...

Differences Between Values of Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Students

Aboriginal populations and youth suicide.

Swanson and Colman provide a muchneeded analysis of associations between exposure to suicide and suicidality outcomes among Canadian youth. Youth suicide in Canada cannot be fully understood without consideration of First Nations, Inuit or Métis populations. Some researchers conclude that suicide among Aboriginal people must be considered a different disease from suicide among non-Aboriginal pe...

Deep Roots for Aboriginal Australian Y Chromosomes

Australia was one of the earliest regions outside Africa to be colonized by fully modern humans, with archaeological evidence for human presence by 47,000 years ago (47 kya) widely accepted [1, 2]. However, the extent of subsequent human entry before the European colonial age is less clear. The dingo reached Australia about 4 kya, indirectly implying human contact, which some have linked to cha...

Dental caries among Australian Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal Australian-born, and overseas-born children.

Few studies have specifically compared the prevalence of dental caries among contemporary Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Historically, Aboriginal groups have had substantially fewer dental caries than non-Aboriginal peoples. More recently, however, this trend appears to have been reversed, with improvements in the oral health of non-Aboriginal children and a deterioration in...