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Going home: I struggled for my American Indian identity.(TRANSFORMATIONS)
A FEW YEARS AG0 the headline of the Wisconsin Oneida tribal newspaper read: "Body Found in Cemetery." Engaged by this awkward title, I continued reading. It turns out some kid hung himself over his grandmother's grave. This got me thinking about American Indian suicide, and the issues of substance abuse and identity that are often behind it all.
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I have a large extended family on the Wisconsin Oneida reservation, far too large to count: Metoxens, Skenandores, Doxtators, Dennys, Hills, you name it. At a certain point, when a family gets so large, they stop doing the math. White people always seem to know what kind of cousin someone ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Going home: I struggled for my American Indian...