{"id":38654,"date":"2016-04-21T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T20:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38654"},"modified":"2018-07-17T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T18:01:30","slug":"ceremony-sends-hope-and-love-to-first-nations-communities-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/04\/ceremony-sends-hope-and-love-to-first-nations-communities-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony sends hope and love to First Nations communities in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\">\n<p>The Indigenous Solidarity Coalition at Brock University gathered for a tobacco ceremony and prayer vigil in front of the Schmon Tower Thursday, April 21.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was in response to the suicide epidemics facing\u00a0the northern First Nations communities of\u00a0Attawapiskat, Ont. and Cross Lake, Man.<\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen people stood in a circle and took part in the tobacco ceremony, drumming and songs aimed to send love and hope to the communities in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Attawapiskat\u2019s chief and eight councillors declared a state of emergency, citing 11 suicide attempts in one night this month\u00a0and 28 recorded attempts in March in their small community of less than 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Equally heartbreaking is the reportedly more than 140 people attempting or threatening to kill themselves in a recent two-week period in the northern Manitoba community of Pimicikamak Cree Nation (Cross Lake), which has a\u00a0population of 6,000.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the deaths or attempted suicides in these communities are youth, of the same age or younger, than most first-year Brock students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u2022 The Indigenous Solidarity Coalition at\u00a0Brock is dedicated to providing\u00a0people in the Brock community and the Niagara Region the opportunity to engage in events which raise awareness and foster activism surrounding\u00a0Indigenous issues.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indigenous Solidarity Coalition at Brock University gathered for a tobacco ceremony and prayer vigil in front of the Schmon Tower Thursday, April 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6833,1,4],"tags":[4041,4042,972,4040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38656,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38654\/revisions\/38656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}