Native American Youth

Native American youth The American educational system faces a major challenge in dealing with deprivation of youth's rights at school due to poverty and racial discrimination. According to the US Census Bureau, 2006, "About a quarter of blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans live in poverty in the United States compared to less than 10% of Asian Americans or Caucasians." (Hughes et al. 2010, p. 2) Hughes, Newkirk & Stenhjem (2010) found that stressors of children in the poor cause mental and physical health problems, causing anxiety, hypertension, fear and depression It was.

According to the Haywood Burns Institute, African-American young people are more likely to be imprisoned five times more than white youth, the probability of a Latin American youth being imprisoned is twice. Times. It is younger than Caucasian - in some individual countries, the gap is much bigger. For example, The Sentencing Project of the criminal justice system surveillance agency reported that the birthrate in Connecticut and New Jersey remains less than half of the national average, but both countries reported that the youth of African-Americans 24 times .

In the United States, indigenous people suicide attempts, whether attempted or completed, are more common than other ethnic and ethnic groups in the United States. Among young Americans, the suicide rate of young American young people is higher than that of young Americans of other races. American Indians and Alaska Native Americans (AIAN) have 560 Federally recognized tribes, more than 200 non-federally accredited tribes, and over 300 languages, very much less than 0.9% of the total US population It is a heterogeneous group. And one or two of them live in urban areas. The suicide rate in the AIAN community has also changed. The reporting rate of the various groups is 0 to 150 per 100,000 people. Native American men are more likely to commit suicide than Native American women, but Native American women have a high prevalence of suicidal behaviors.