@anna_lillith

Cool sign.
What is the background story?

@anna_lillith

Thank you.

I had not been aware of this tragedy, #NoMoreStolenSisters.

https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

This seems to be a commonality with one of the largest minority, #blacks:

"Despite representing 12.85% of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 — or 34% — of all missing persons reported in 2012."

https://www.mic.com/articles/93780/64-000-missing-women-in-america-all-have-one-important-thing-in-common

Idk the pecentage of #NativeAmericans in the #US and #Canada, but for the #US it is 1.1% in comparison, 3.684.982 people...

@anna_lillith

2/n
...(as of April, 2020; https://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/demographics_profile.html).
The #CIA's estimate for the #US population in 2022 is 337341954, 1.1% of which would be 3.7m people.

Of the 38,232,593 people estimated to live in #Canada in 2022, about 4.4% identified as #NativeAmericans, about 1.7 m people. (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/canada/summaries)

So, this adds up to ca. 5.4m #NativeAmericans. The sex ratio for the #US population is 0.97. I will assume this is about the same for CAN and...

@msquebanh
FYI: US: #NativeAmericans (very difficult to get the terminology right writing for a global audience).

@anna_lillith

@msquebanh

Honestly, I have a hard time thinking of the huge country of #Canada as an Island. 😉 Thanks for the information.

BTW, I seem to remember the story of creation from a #NativeAmerican tribe (#US).
Does this possible have something to do with #FirstNations calling it #TurtleIsland?

@anna_lillith

#turtleisland #bipoc

@msquebanh

i/: Not quite the perpective of the usual map./I

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/turtle-island

@anna_lillith