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Analysis: COVID-19 shortened Native American life expectancy, but it’s not the only factor [pbs.org]

 

By Allison Kelliher (The Conversation), Photo: Donovan Quintero/Reuters,  PBS New Hour, February 3, 2023

Six and one-half years.

That’s the decline in life expectancy that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought upon American Indians and Alaska Natives, based on an August 2022 report from the National Center for Health Statistics.

This astounding figure translates to an overall drop in average living years from 71.8 years in 2019 to 65.2 by the end of 2021.

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Human beings can actually be consciously or subconsciously perceived and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations.

Many indigenous people have learned this the hardest way, notably those forced into American Indian Boarding Schools. In Canada’s atrocious case, it includes many indigenous children buried in unmarked and even officially unrecorded grave sites. [Obviously, it was a serious attempt at annihilating native culture.]

More recently, there are the missing indigenous women suspected of having been murdered and dumped in a Winnipeg garbage disposal site.

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