OTTAWA — She was bullied relentlessly. She suffered from asthma, diabetes and other ailments. Her living conditions were unbearably cramped: 20 relatives taking refuge in a two-bedroom government nursing station for more than a year after a sewage backup made their home uninhabitable.

Still, it came as a shock when Sheridan Hookimaw, a sociable 13-year-old girl, took her own life last October, her great-aunt said.

It was the kind of shock, the aunt said, that has become all too familiar.

Since September, 101 people in the Attawapiskat First Nation, a remote aboriginal community with about 2,000 residents, have attempted suicide. That is about 5 percent of its population.

There were an astonishing 11 suicide attempts on Saturday alone.

“It’s quite scary when you hear the air ambulance at 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning,” said Jackie Hookimaw-Witt, Sheridan’s great-aunt. “That’s the youth being taken out.”