Aboriginals Culture

Violence Tendencies on Increased Rate of Suicide (Case Study of Canadian First Nations)
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Violence Tendencies on Increased Rate of Suicide (Case Study of Canadian First Nations)
Research problem
Understanding the history of Canadian aboriginals is essential in investigating the relationship between higher tendencies of violence about culture and its influence on the high rate of suicide between the First nations’ two tribes. Long before the arrival of the European in Canada, the aboriginal tribes including Inuit and Metis inhabited the region. The presence of the Europeans sparked several wars that would go on for some years that left scores dead and several others injured, displaced, and disillusioned. Being a traditional people, the aboriginals fought with the foreigners to protect their territory and culture. What the natives prided in as a rich way of life was considered barbaric and backward by the invaders, a status that they sought to challenge through colonization. The interference of the natives’ lives led to bitterness and despair among the people with a permanent scar that has been passed down from generation to generation. To date, aboriginals still leave in the same fear and resentment leading to a good number of them turning to substance abuse as a means of survival and source of comfort. Violence has been experienced at different levels including from family members at home, from law enforcers, and from fellow community members. Although children and women have been the leading targets of violent acts, men have not been spared either.

Subproblems
According to (Ormrod & Leedy, 2005), subdividing a complex research problem into subproblems makes it easy to solve. In understanding the problem of increased rate of suicide and its relationship with the violent nature of the aboriginals with regards to their culture some of the question that arises include:
How does the aboriginal culture influence occurrences of violence?
What was the impact of culture distortion among the First Nation community?
What are the specific factors of violence both internal and external that the people face?
How does culture deal with victims of violence?
Hypothesis
The study will be testing the hypothesis that increased tendencies of violence due to Canada’s First Nations’ history with oppression has led to high rates of suicide among the people.. (Removed the guide part).
Definition of terms
Aboriginals – a group of people who occupy or inhabit a given land during the earliest times before the arrival of colonists.
First Nations – native communities comprising of Inuit and Metis that occupied Canada’s south of the Arctic before the coming of the Europeans.
Colonization- western European nation’s influence and control over foreign lands of natives such as those in the Americas.
Substance abuse – patterned hazardous use of psychoactive substances including drugs and alcohol. The harmful application relates to patterns of usage and dosage/ amounts of substance consumed.
Suicide – intentional cause of one’s death often due to emotional distress and psychological distress.
Assumptions
The research is going to assume that a good number of the aboriginal people are still very traditional and hold on to their native beliefs and customs. The presumption is based on the fact that very few Canadian natives have been lucky to get the education due to poverty and limited access to resources. The culture of the First Nations has been subject to numerous criticisms, and yet the people have remained loyal and adamant to change their beliefs. The other assumption would be that violence directly influences suicide. The concept held here would be that just as violence arises from an unstable mental state, the case is the same for tendencies of violence. Ormrod and Leedy (2005) hold that stating assumptions in research is necessary to prevent any misunderstandings that could arise and interfere with the credibility of the researcher as well as their work.

References
Ormrod, J. E., & Leedy, P. D. (2005). Practical research: Planning and design. New Jersey, Pearson Merill Prentice Hall.