The Effect Of Alaskan Ethnicity On Native Americans

In the years between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and fourteen, many important things happened. The former Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived several impeachment hearings, terrorist attacks brought down the Twin Towers, the UN Atomic Energy Agency told Iran to stop enriching uranium, and Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in Myanmar’s parliament after twenty years of house arrest. People tend to look at these events as little pieces that make up the great puzzle of history. However, while these tiny little pieces were being made and put into place, something else was happening. Undercover, and in disguise. The numbers of people starving or dying weren’t the only thing going up. In the years between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and fourteen, many great and terrible things happened. Something that especially affected those of Native American or Alaskan ethnicity, young and middle age women, white men, the most- suicide. …show more content…
For them, the percentages increased to eighty-nine percent for women and thirty-eight percent for men. Finding the source of this dramatic increase is admittedly difficult, but Kristen Holland, (a behavioral specialist in the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention), has a hunch, saying that "they are typically in a lower socioeconomic status than some of the other ethnic and racial groups, and may have greater access to lethal means and be at higher risk of substance use and alcohol use,". Holland must be onto something, because people who successfully are more likely than not to be found with high blood alcohol concentrations. Alcohol use is also the factor most often found with suicidal