Ethnic Racism And Colonialism Are The Leading Cause Behind...

Ethnic Racism and Colonialism are the leading cause behind Mental Health In Reserves. Mental Health is a universal factor that affects every individual, no matter geographical location, ethnicity, gender or age. Often Mental Health can be the factor that leads to ethnic racism or geographical inequality. But both factors lie hand in hand in regards to Mental Health. In this case ethnic Racism and geographical inequalities is found to be the leading factor in the cause of mental health in Indigenous reserves around the world, especially in Northern Canada. Reserves such as the Indigenous Cree community of Attawapiskat whose land was taken and used as a resource mine and the soil was used as space for a diesel leak or the Slavi-Loucheux†¦show more content†¦Although many people believe this is the right way to proceed due to the enormous rate of Aboriginal criminals in jail, but often the reason they reside in this situation is due to the limited resources they have resulting in fending themselves and committing street-crimes. We are the cause behind why they s trive to keep their culture and reserve alive and in a livable standards. Because of the geographical inequalities and ethnic racism target towards their culture, they experience increasing rates of mental health thus causing poor health and a declining population. What is Ethnic Inequalities? Ethnic Racism is an occurrence that Indigenous population experience everyday, during work, going off the reserves, attending school or even mundane chores. A striking 97% of Indigenous individuals have experienced racism within a year time span, while 70% have been targets of more then eight counts of racist situations. (Adams et al. 2014) Many of our laws were made to created a set of boundaries that decrease their ability to fit in with out society and voice their opinions and concerns. Non-Aboriginals saw the reserve population to be below us and titled them as â€Å"savages† due to the lack of sanitation, intelligence, health, and income. Those factors affect many of the Indigenous tribes because of the inequalities we have placed onto their reserves. Inequalities such as the lack of medical help or the vast amount of