Identifying colonial discourses in inupiat young people's narratives as a way to understand the no future of Inupiat youth suicide

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-24

  Wexler, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ALASKA; COLONIALISM; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; SUICIDE;

EID: 67650308929     PISSN: 08935394     EISSN: 15337731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5820/aian.1601.2009.1     Document Type: Article

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