This research was conducted by the University of Manitoba, department of Community Health Sciences and was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The focus on this study is to understand the relationship between the histories of abuse and suicidal behavior among the Indigenous population, and in association of indirect or direct exposure from the Residential School. The study showed that direct exposure from the Residential Schools put in forth a multigenerational trauma transmission that has spread through the Indigenous communities, although in some cases resilience was found among few survivors. Mainly that direct Residential School exposure was only associated with history of abuse but in the case of individuals that were
