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Sexual abuse a root cause of indigenous suicide crisis: Susan Aglukark

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Susan Aglukark performs during the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards on Friday, Nov. 24, 2006 in Toronto. Some nights, Susan Aglukark still wakes up drenched in sweat. It's been 42 years since the acclaimed Inuk singer endured sexual abuse, including being photographed naked, as an eight-year-old girl living in remote Rankin Inlet, a trauma from which she now considers herself about 80 per cent healed. She's learning to let go of the other 20 per cent, but she knows it will never be completely gone. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Nathan Denette
It's been 42 years since the acclaimed Inuk singer endured sexual abuse, including being photographed naked, as an eight-year-old girl living in remote Rankin Inlet – a trauma from which she now considers herself about 80 per cent healed.

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