Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.
In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.
@QasimRashid Thank you for the response! I read some of the report, and the data. Calling it genocide is, IMO, hyperbolic and counter-productive.
I also think that article was written by a racist. They’re offended that Trudeau wouldn’t say the genocide is ongoing, but then they include this gem:
“You can lead white people to water and they'll colonize it, another of my aunties says.”
Here are a few homicide rates (per 100k):
Mexico - 26.6
Puerto Rico - 16.6
Missouri - 11.8
Indigenous Canadians - 8.1
Of course there are plenty of injustices from the past that still need to be worked on. We’re in agreement on that. But saying there is an ongoing genocide — deliberate killing of large numbers of an ethnic group — is absurd.
In Canada, estimating the life expectancy of Indigenous populations is methodologically challenging since death registrations do not usually collect information on whether the deceased was Indigenous. For the first time in Canada, a series of census-mortality linked datasets has been created that can be used to estimate trends in life expectancies among Indigenous household populations enumerated by a census. The objectives of this article are to 1) estimate life expectancy for First Nations people, Métis and Inuit at various ages and by sex for 2011, and compare it with that of the non-Indigenous population 2) examine trends in longevity since 1996 for First Nations people, Métis and Inuit and the non-Indigenous population, and estimate whether the disparity between Indigenous populations and the non-Indigenous population has changed over time. In doing so, this study aims to fill an important information gap by providing a national picture of the life expectancy of First Nations people, Métis and Inuit.
@MWilson @QasimRashid indigenous women are STILL being sterilized during childbirth.
Indigenous women are far more likely to disappear than any group in the US.
If the continued ignoring of the US of the treaties they signed us unknown to you, and the constant economic war still waged against indigenous isn't enough for you, perhaps you remember Standing Rock and the police and federal govt support of corporate takeover of indigenous land. It's just one example among hundreds
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Mike
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