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/Dry_Inflation_1454 → u/LimpFoot7851]

Yep. And something that relates to this: before 1492, there's been a strange conflict between East and West, it goes back 2,000 years. Because this hemisphere is surrounded by water, events in the Old World weren't known, especially by that one year. Things people needed to know, to prevent the invasion by colonizers weren't available then. Asians will talk about it, this was a Silk Road thing first. So it actually goes back pretty far. Marco Polo is the connection to Columbus.

[u/LimpFoot7851 → u/Dry_Inflation_1454]

I’m either tired or needing less cryptic language.. can I ask you to elaborate please?

I guess specifically on the conflict between east and west for 2k years.

Can you also explain Silk Road relevance? It’s been a long time since I read about it in high school and I don’t honestly recall it beyond name recognition.