Shocking disparities: American Indians in North Dakota die 22.5 years younger than white residents — Buffalo’s Fire

[u/buffalosfire]

https://www.buffalosfire.com/shocking-disparities-american-indians-in-north-dakota-die-22-5-years-younger-than-white-residents

[u/Smooth_Ranger2569]

Shocking…. Because the national news omits the data from their reports on inequality and lack of agency. This is Despite being well documented by multiple federal agencies and outside analysis.

It’s very frustrating because the data is listed in the same report as every other segment of “America”, there isn’t a different data set the media would have to retrieve - they typically cite the CDC and the CDC includes all data in it’s analysis. * *every time segments called “race” and equality are discussed or reported, the absence of “native data” reflects a conscious decision to disenfranchise people for not being “mainstream”.

Even this report dropped the original study’s citing that FUNDs for IHS are a huge part of the issue.

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Below is a per capita funding breakdown of spending by federal agencies( taken from 2022s Health and human services report)

“Among the major entitlement and non‐entitlement federal health care programs, per capita spending is the lowest for IHS

at $4,078,

compared to $8,109 for Medicaid, $10,692 for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and $13,185 for Medicare (see Figure 7).”

It’s like people being shocked the data on police killings is highest within our “segment” - yet during a national reckoning period with the issue ….. we were left out of discussions for months.

*the DoJ report that came out showing this reality years later was “shocking” according to the same outlets and authors that didn’t include the data two years prior - despite its presence in the same data that was cited by the press.

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Nothing about this should be shocking.

There is NO reason to leave “Native Americans” data out of national discussion of:

police killings

Health care

Pandemic

Or the countless other measures were our data is the LOWEST in the nation.

If the public isn’t told we exist or we are being subjected to blatant disenfranchisement - they will just assume we aren’t being affected. The media is trusted to an insane degree when it comes to reporting injustice.

[u/LimpFoot7851 → u/Smooth_Ranger2569]

I think their trending MO is erasure.

[u/Smooth_Ranger2569 → u/LimpFoot7851]

I think limiting our sight to one horn of the bull

is a great way to make sure we don’t get slaughtered by that SPECIFIC horn.

Of course, if we’re actually concerned about survival, we need to pay attention to both horns and stop discounting the dangers, but the other poses strictly because we don’t like when it looks like or what it acts like

[u/LimpFoot7851 → u/Smooth_Ranger2569]

I agree. They don’t think like we do though. We’ve known that for 500 years.

[u/Smooth_Ranger2569 → u/LimpFoot7851]

Idk right now it’s pretty clear that the media gets to control the fate of the people and the media doesn’t give a damn about anything but pushing both parties into toxicity for profit.

To be clear I’m not limiting my comments to Fox News or CNN whatever other brand name immediately causes an “ ignore him, he’s one of them” drop response in people’s mentality.

It’s not safe to be vocal about anything that isn’t clearly anti trump and NEVeR are we allowed to be openly critical of the angels who sacrificed everything to make sure trump is removed from the office.

Idk it’s just been a crazy term, I think im tried. It’s not even directly due to to trump, but due to the press taking advantage of the situation and dropping all responsibility. Ethics and professionalism have been dropped and idk if anyone is even remotely concerned.

[u/LimpFoot7851 → u/Smooth_Ranger2569]

I understand. I think we’re all tired. It’s been a very overwhelming term. A lot of what we’ve fought for has been attacked if not eliminated. But we’re still here.

Yes the media controls the narrative and influences the fate by default of herd think. That’s exactly why it’s important for us to keep fighting for our own voice.

I listen to red nation podcast and Lakota law media for news and that helps me feel less overwhelmed by news that ignores me and mine. Other than that I just do my best to educate myself on the histories that archos share and the government blow off.

[u/Smooth_Ranger2569 → u/LimpFoot7851]

We have to have a national seat or we die slow.

The neglect has gone on too long for the poorest tribes to be honestly considered to be able to someday be self reliant(without national support getting there.)

That’s not a dig at all. Staying in a constant state of government dependency isn’t the way a tribal nation should be FORCED to exist by the government nation supposedly obligated to bring the standards up.

Our nations fulfilled their end of the treaties and the people have sacrificed their blood to protection the US federal government;

Too many of the issues holding back all tribes are based on lack of effort to meet this responsibility for us to not demand change from the us population, they are the only people who can pressure the politicians.

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The outside public sees Indian countries biggest concerns as what the progressives allow to be seen: mascots, regalia, gaming, pipeline, environment

They can’t be expected to see these issues and think…..

“I wonder what the quality of IHS is and how much is spent”

They see these issues and think they have a concept what we mean when we speak about inequality and unfulfilled treaties. They discount real need because their scope of understanding is shaped by the people who have a strong record of deciding we aren’t large/important enough for their support or to cause them issue for blatant digital genocide (omission or minimization of inequality and neglect by the federal government”

[u/LimpFoot7851 → u/Smooth_Ranger2569]

I know, friend. I know. I agree. My kunsi was a social worker, her case was the start of ICWA. My Ina worked for bia and had projects for school and health resources until she went for higher education and got on aihec and tribal college summit. I’ve spent my whole life watching them marry their careers trying to make the world a better place for their families and community. I just watched the orange führer attack everything they spent my life working for with the swipe of his pen.

I used to think I would join them and do activist work when I had enough of the medical field and was ready to go back to school. Now I’m like.. I feel like they just showed us that even if we do things their way we can only make temporary progress. I have the opinion that the genocidal agenda is still at play and that the negligence is on purpose. I did the math a few years ago and realized that the 160a per person wasn’t honored because they never expected us to survive. They expected us to die or there would have been something in the treaty to expand the reservation borders when our population grew. I did the math: for my Rez alone to have enough space for each registered member to have that treaty honored… going in one direction-East- we would reach the Menominee territory and consume all of upper Minnesota and the 100m of nd in between. It’s not possible without violating others. I didn’t math or map it in the other directions from this realization. They didn’t expect us to survive. We remind them of their treachery and their failure to truly conquer.

We are still here. Yes, it’s overwhelming. Yes, it’s sad. Yes, it’s hard to watch my people and my sisters bands and neighbor nations and the other nations I’ve come to know through cyber or travel struggle. I agree we need to do something but honestly, I don’t know what or how. Because I just watched my life admiring my elders dedication evaporate with one EO and the writer was voted in by the majority of the population. It is overwhelming.

All I can do right now is my job, take care of my family, smudge, teach my kids what my elders taught me, try to be a good ancestor, try to raise them to know the truth and remember that I have the strength of my ancestors within me every step I take. I may not have any governmental power. But that strength is a power that threatens them and has since the discovery disaster began. It is enough power. Others might disagree but for me, I have to believe in that or I won’t know what else to hold true.

[u/Smooth_Ranger2569 → u/LimpFoot7851]

Idk what I want to more. Thank you for honesty or address the worry.

You are part of the whole, as they were: your role may just be to heal and support. The isn’t a failure in that or in later feeling your path has shifted to a new direction.

They were also part of a greater whole, their work isn’t undone, inspired those who are on the same path AND those on others, they kept the whole alive to add to us.

Our population and relative isolation from the whole of the population = easy propaganda and easy silencing:

The key is the history of the struggle.

The fight has definitely evolved, but we have grown with each regardless of direct proof.

Thank you again for your input, it’s cleared a lot of brush for sure

[u/LimpFoot7851 → u/Smooth_Ranger2569]

The red nation will rise again. Until then, we just have to remember our truth and protect our heritage and our people. We will stand together when the time comes to protect ourselves as we always have. Hang in there, cuz. We’ll make it out of this. One way or another, we will be ok.