USA Today: Suicide Rate for Native American Women is up 139%
Shelby Rowe’s beadwork of Sitting Bull. (Photo: Shelby Rowe)
Published July 10, 2019
In an article in USA Today, Alia E. Dastagir writes:
The US suicide rate is up 33% since 1999, but for Native American women and men, the increase is even greater: 139% and 71%, respectively, according to an analysis out this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Suicide disproportionately affects non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Natives, according to the CDC. A 2018 CDC report found their suicide rate was more than 3.5 times higher than those among racial and ethnic groups with the lowest rates.
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