http://web.uvic.ca/~lalonde/manuscripts/1998TransCultural.pdf
In this article the authors identify how culture can help prevent the heartbreaking phenomena of First Nations youth suicide. From the abstract “Communities that have taken active steps to preserve and rehabilitate their own cultures are shown to be those in which youth suicide rates are dramatically lower.”
In terms of the readings we’ve done so far in this class, I think this directly pertains to the concern that focusing too much on cultural responsiveness may be somehow detrimental to Indigenous youth in terms of academic performance. Here we have an argument that, to the contrary, culture is an imperative factor for Indigenous youth to thrive in the most primal of ways: life and death.
This topic may be applicable to secondary and tertiary education. With the former, the educator would need to distill and present the findings of this article and others to explain some of the wider implications.
Additional resource:
Article about culture being used as treatment to mental health: http://learningcircle.ubc.ca/files/2014/05/Redressing-First-Nations-historical-trauma-Theorizing-mechanisms-for-indigenous-culture-as-mental-health-treatment.pdf
Article about healing through “interdependence” (culture, family, community): https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ555251.pdf