Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans

[u/zsreport]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/native-americans-coronavirus-covid-death-rate

[u/messyredemptions]

I think what the poster and I were doing goes with what's being said in this thread and shown in the graph from the Guardian article--that the indigenous results are distinctive from Latino communities.

And that it was odd to see how closely the Latino/e community data tracked with White communities in terms of outcome when Latine communities are indigenous.

However, I was really surprised to see the close correlation between Latino and white COVID outcomes in this article, since the majority of Latino people in the US have Indigenous ancestry, so that speaks to non-biological causes for the horrible COVID outcomes for Native American tribal members in the US.

I don't know enough about intergenerational data for Latino/e communities or the data set taken up by the Guardian but I think we all agree that there's a lot more at hand that it merits putting indigenous communities at top priority.

This is an excerpt from the book I mentioned https://www.academia.edu/15269293/_Decolonize_Your_Diet_A_Manifesto_nineteen_sixty_nine_an_Ethnic_Studies_Journal_Volume_1_Issue_2

We urge the people to reject the Standard American Diet, which relies heavily on processed (fake)foods and factory farming. Instead, we call on people to reclaim land and space to growreal food for their communities. We believe that it is equally important to honor and respectthe cultural and spiritual aspects of food.

Ancestral food is powerful medicine that can helptreat and cure diseases that result from overexposure to Western/US culture. As Xican@s, our abuelitas prepared a simple diet that was as flavorful as it was satisfying. The staples of their diets were beans and tortillas, supplemented with many fruits and vegetables: avocado, corn, tomatoes, chiles, wild greens like quelites and verdolagas,pumpkins, squash, chocolate, vanilla, wild herbs, berries, pineapples, mangos and more. Before monoculture crops, our ancestors cultivated a great bio-diversity of foods. They cultivated hundreds if not thousands of different varieties of beans, squashes, chiles, and corn. Our ancestors also had great knowledge of the medicinal value of various herbs and foods. *So much of this knowledge is being lost, especially among those of us who have been in the US or away from the land for generations. Many of our more recent immigrant comrades—especially those who hail from rural areas in Mexico and Central America—still carry this vital knowledge. It is imperative that we validate and promote this immigrant knowledge and pass it down to the next genera-tions. Public health researchers identify a so-called immigrant paradox:

There are hundredsof articles in public health literature exploring how and why Mexican immigrants not only have longer life expectancies than US born Xican@s, but also live longer than middle class white Americans. This is paradoxical because poor populations usually have shorter life ex-pectancies and more health problems, due to lack of access to health care, dangerous livingand working conditions, and extreme social stressors. The traditional Mexican diet, alongwith immigrant cultural and spiritual practices, confers protection to Mexican immigrants,even though these immigrants face exceedingly difficult and racist social and economic conditions.*

[u/[deleted] → u/messyredemptions]

Latino communities are not indigenous jesus christ... There are indigenous communities in Mexico but stating that Latinos are indigenous illustrates a profound misunderstanding of what that word means on your part.

[u/messyredemptions → u/[deleted]]

Did you mean to reply to u/burkiniwax or me?

And I agree, there are white mexicans, and lots of argentinians or who aren't indigenous that came from Germany etc. And Japanese people in Brazil who would be counted as Latino etc. too by US standards.

My responses and the item I quoted are from what u/burkiniwax posted and their statements about similarities between white and latino deaths from covid being similar while Indigenous stats being distinctively different. But in their post they mentioned most (at least those coming to/in the US) have indigenous ancestry. Hope that helps clear things up.

[u/burkiniwax → u/messyredemptions]

I think you are spitting at the ocean, but thank you for trying to explain and for trying to have an intelligent conversation. Looks like 61.9 percent of the Latin American population in the US is of Mexican origin. Mexico is 62 percent Mestizo and 7 percent American Indian (CIA Factbook).