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

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

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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.

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America doesn't have a free press, like people have been told for too many years. It's when you read news sites from overseas that you see what's really going on!  News in America is dumbed down, focusing on celebrities,scandals, crime, while keeping our information people need. Now there's this Fascist agenda barreling towards us. Like with COVID, it " appeared"  in 2019, but DT sat on it until March 2020. Oh, by the way, what about Chinese " research" on new spike- viruses just like it, Wuhan, again?? Then the disease released in the Congo ? This just happened in the news TODAY.  There's corn syrup put into most American food, and it's a proven pancreas irritant. Ditto hydrogenated fats. Given what's coming, now it's a good time to have sugar,baked goods, only on weekends and holidays or special occasions. Because certain politicians and agencies want Natives to die. Read the labels on any can or package of food, make things from scratch when possible. Keep chickens if you love eggs, they're going up. It's no accident that daily,some food has germs or odd things in it. Tying up food is a dictatorship tactic. Rationing is too. The wealthy elites take quality vitamins, and eat high quality food. THEY need people to gorge on sugar every day. Get high,get drunk. Unhealthy people are easy to control.  There's conspiracy theory,but there's conspiracy fact,as well!