Posted on Feb 1, 2023
Native Americans left out of 'deaths of despair' research
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For more than a decade, Americans have been dying younger than people in other developed countries. Researchers attribute much of this rise in mid-life deaths to what are called "deaths of despair" — that is suicides, drug overdoses and deaths from alcoholic liver disease — among middle-aged white Americans.
But a study published last week in The Lancet shows that these premature deaths have affected American Indian and Alaska Native communities far more than white communities.
"The whole sort of premise of the 'death of despair' idea that this is unique to white communities really didn't stand up when we took a close look at the data," says Dr. Joseph Friedman, a physician and researcher at the University of California Los Angeles.
"The Lancet article underscores a number of things that we've known for a substantial period of time, but have never articulated it in such a sharp fashion," says Spero Manson, director of the University of Colorado's Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health who wasn't involved in the new study.
For more than a decade, Americans have been dying younger than people in other developed countries. Researchers attribute much of this rise in mid-life deaths to what are called "deaths of despair" — that is suicides, drug overdoses and deaths from alcoholic liver disease — among middle-aged white Americans.
But a study published last week in The Lancet shows that these premature deaths have affected American Indian and Alaska Native communities far more than white communities.
"The whole sort of premise of the 'death of despair' idea that this is unique to white communities really didn't stand up when we took a close look at the data," says Dr. Joseph Friedman, a physician and researcher at the University of California Los Angeles.
"The Lancet article underscores a number of things that we've known for a substantial period of time, but have never articulated it in such a sharp fashion," says Spero Manson, director of the University of Colorado's Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health who wasn't involved in the new study.
Native Americans left out of 'deaths of despair' research
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..."Manson has been studying COVID testing and vaccination in six large urban Indian health organizations and found their efforts to be very successful.
"It has been their coming together across their programs, working not only with their urban partners that are non-native, but also working with reservation-based communities adjacent to their catchment areas," he says.
Reducing deaths of despair, Manson says, will require harnessing the strength and resilience of Native communities and supporting them with resources.
"There are possible solutions," he adds. "Those solutions are often local. They have to do with self-determination and the ability to have access to the necessary resources to mobilize those solutions."
..."Manson has been studying COVID testing and vaccination in six large urban Indian health organizations and found their efforts to be very successful.
"It has been their coming together across their programs, working not only with their urban partners that are non-native, but also working with reservation-based communities adjacent to their catchment areas," he says.
Reducing deaths of despair, Manson says, will require harnessing the strength and resilience of Native communities and supporting them with resources.
"There are possible solutions," he adds. "Those solutions are often local. They have to do with self-determination and the ability to have access to the necessary resources to mobilize those solutions."
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Just like Canadian Indians or First Nations as they call them up here, they are not used to alcohol which white men perfectly gave to them as' fire water' to mess them up.
I would say the majority of them died from exposure to diseases but they weren't ever exposed to it until the Conquistadors came. Also, alcoholism, the boarding schools or the poverty that the Native Americans were exposed to, resulted in broken families, drunk parents drinking when pregnant which brings fetal alcohol syndrome and make some natives grow up a little bit Autistic or actually ignorant and add all to that the Discrimination by white people. Also, some of them were Christianized by going to school or being forced to learn Christianity and those people or those natives then are telling the traditional Indians or Inuit that what they learn about what they call the Creator or native folklore is satanic. This results in a lot of despair, the Discrimination of a fully educated Native Alaskan Indian or American Indian, and then not getting a job interview because they have a native last name. Or it's also happened that if you have a white-sounding last name and you submit your resume through indeed or some other job site when you go to the interview and they see that you are not white or not what they expect you to be or they expect you to be a drunk Indian, you won't get hired for the job even if you are professional, well-educated, sober just because of racism.
Also, you have a lot of deaths because there are a lot of addictions from meth, cigarette smoking, alcoholism and diabetes is very common because they're not used to eating flour. I'm giving you these examples based on what I've seen just in my wife's family. Also, there is elderly neglects.
You have broken homes and Elders who often live in isolated homes and who are not checked upon by the younger sons or daughter, nieces, nephews and other family members and they are found dead from something simple as pneumonia that could have been prevented have they been checked on and had they not been left alone.
This happened just a couple of days ago to an uncle of my wife who used to help people with finding homes. He was one of those entrepreneurial native guys with a college education who actually started a home association. He would buy all these apartments and then rent them out to natives because natives couldn't get decent housing in the city. When I first met my wife, she was living in one of those apartments. He was just found dead a couple of days ago and we are not sure exactly of the cause of death but we suspect elderly abuse because nobody checked on him and he was only about 70 or 75. He may have had a heart attack or he may have succumbed to the flu or covid-19 but this happens a lot. Also, because of the Draconian covid-19 paranoia brought forward by democrats and Dr Fauci, you had Indian reservations that acted like city-states and wouldn't allow people to come in and check on their family members.
So this became more like each and every Indian Reservation became its own little Singapore and had it s Indian police keep people out because of the paranoia of brought forward by the white man. Also, some of those who got the covid-19 vaccine got reactions. They didn't sell the Johnson and Johnson vaccine here in Canada but the other ones were available. And then there was discrimination for those like myself or my wife who didn't get the vaccine.
My wife had an aneurysm already 8 years ago so she was not going to get the vaccine. Now we're finding out that the vaccine had a 1 in 900 chance of causing side effects. Dr fauci didn't tell us about that then. It was censored on Twitter, Facebook and other social media. So you have Native Americans and Native Canadians power-tripping over covid-19 instead of just washing their hands and social distancing. We still have people that are Fanatics about wearing the mask up here even though we know that masks are useless unless it's a fitted mask. So we also had the problem up here in Canada of everybody who passed away dying of covid-19 even though they didn't verify it. So it's really tragic to see what you're talking about in this article but based on what my wife has to deal with from her own family and others because of discrimination or segregation due to policies put forth by the white man that caused division Within these native communities.
When my wife went to Honduras a couple years ago before covid, everybody thought she was Hispanic. When she'd come to the USA to go to military my dining ins, Hispanics thought she was Hispanic and not Canadian Indian. She didn't feel any racism whatsoever in the USA. As soon as she came to Canada, she gets followed in the store and security is called to her aisle or employees pretend to be stocking when they were looking at her, my wife doesn't dress up like a street person, she dresses really nice and has one of those $500 handbags from coach brand whatever. She gets challenged to ask if this is her debit or credit card. She proves to them that she is they say she is because she has a truck driver's license which you guys call Class A yet she still considered indigent, on welfare, yes she's never been on welfare. After my wife had an aneurysm and spent three weeks in the hospital and recovered, she had to go to an intake for mental health because it's normal for people who have aneurysms to feel depressed it does play with their mind. When she went to go see the medical intake from Alberta Health Care. They didn't ask her what she was in there for. They asked her if she needed gas money? The after if she had a car? They asked those questions instead of asking her what happened? So you have a lot of racism in Canada and I'm sure in the USA against First Nations or Inuits or those original Americans. Many of them live in isolation. Many of them walk in the middle of a snowstorm to go get something to eat. It could be going to a local store and buy macaroni and cheese some cheap staple because they don't have much money. So hopefully things get better but it's really sad to see how bad things are these last few decades. Canadian Indians were not even allowed to leave the reservation without an Indian agent until the 1970s. When native Canadians served in World War I, World War II or korea, they didn't get the same benefits like a white man did. They didn't get land in a homestead.
The list goes on and on. I believe the reason that my wife married me is because I am not exactly white because I have Hispanic blood in me and my grandmother was black Indian mix or m u l a t o. She knows I have two cultures and I speak Spanish so she wouldn't consider me a wasp. She also knows that if she's with me, this could keep her out of trouble when being pulled over by the police or in other situations such as going to a restaurant and being served and not being given the cold shoulder or not served at all. After we came back in 2015 after my sister committed suicide, we went to her funeral and we went to Disneyland to try to forget about the sadness of my sister's funeral. When we flew back to Canada, right after we passed customs and Border enforcement and we're waiting for our baggage, a Canadian man reminded my wife that she was back in Canada because he called her a SQUAW. That's like using the n-word against the black man. I didn't hear this I was getting the bag but she told me but I probably would have screamed the guy and punched him and probably got kicked out of the country. This is not unprecedented, if you watch Jeremiah Johnson movie with Robert Redford, A white guy called his wife a SQUAW and he got touched out by Robert Redford.
Democrats talk about equity and equality but they're having to go a long way and be inclusive of everybody and not push Critical Race Theory and make you hate white people or make white people hate themselves.
That's a form of racism. Like Dr. Ben Carson said, Critical Race Theory is replacing one form of racism with another. We shouldn't do it against our own people and feel white guilt and we should do our best to be accepting of other cultures and other races. I've gone to at least 10 different sweats with my wife. I was the token white guy in the sweat that's where you go inside an enclosed structure covered with skins or blankets and the medicine man praise and throws hot water onto heated rocks and we pray. It's an ancient custom and nobody ever discriminated against me. People came hundreds of miles away to go to the sweat but we happen to know a medicine man who was only 45 minutes away from Edmonton. So the indigenous people are accepting of me yet the white people are not accepting of the indigenous people in Canada and the USA.
If there are typos in this rant of mine, I will fix it later. I am using voice text.
SGT Alan Martinez
https://youtu.be/7mKZ7PBfCXA
I would say the majority of them died from exposure to diseases but they weren't ever exposed to it until the Conquistadors came. Also, alcoholism, the boarding schools or the poverty that the Native Americans were exposed to, resulted in broken families, drunk parents drinking when pregnant which brings fetal alcohol syndrome and make some natives grow up a little bit Autistic or actually ignorant and add all to that the Discrimination by white people. Also, some of them were Christianized by going to school or being forced to learn Christianity and those people or those natives then are telling the traditional Indians or Inuit that what they learn about what they call the Creator or native folklore is satanic. This results in a lot of despair, the Discrimination of a fully educated Native Alaskan Indian or American Indian, and then not getting a job interview because they have a native last name. Or it's also happened that if you have a white-sounding last name and you submit your resume through indeed or some other job site when you go to the interview and they see that you are not white or not what they expect you to be or they expect you to be a drunk Indian, you won't get hired for the job even if you are professional, well-educated, sober just because of racism.
Also, you have a lot of deaths because there are a lot of addictions from meth, cigarette smoking, alcoholism and diabetes is very common because they're not used to eating flour. I'm giving you these examples based on what I've seen just in my wife's family. Also, there is elderly neglects.
You have broken homes and Elders who often live in isolated homes and who are not checked upon by the younger sons or daughter, nieces, nephews and other family members and they are found dead from something simple as pneumonia that could have been prevented have they been checked on and had they not been left alone.
This happened just a couple of days ago to an uncle of my wife who used to help people with finding homes. He was one of those entrepreneurial native guys with a college education who actually started a home association. He would buy all these apartments and then rent them out to natives because natives couldn't get decent housing in the city. When I first met my wife, she was living in one of those apartments. He was just found dead a couple of days ago and we are not sure exactly of the cause of death but we suspect elderly abuse because nobody checked on him and he was only about 70 or 75. He may have had a heart attack or he may have succumbed to the flu or covid-19 but this happens a lot. Also, because of the Draconian covid-19 paranoia brought forward by democrats and Dr Fauci, you had Indian reservations that acted like city-states and wouldn't allow people to come in and check on their family members.
So this became more like each and every Indian Reservation became its own little Singapore and had it s Indian police keep people out because of the paranoia of brought forward by the white man. Also, some of those who got the covid-19 vaccine got reactions. They didn't sell the Johnson and Johnson vaccine here in Canada but the other ones were available. And then there was discrimination for those like myself or my wife who didn't get the vaccine.
My wife had an aneurysm already 8 years ago so she was not going to get the vaccine. Now we're finding out that the vaccine had a 1 in 900 chance of causing side effects. Dr fauci didn't tell us about that then. It was censored on Twitter, Facebook and other social media. So you have Native Americans and Native Canadians power-tripping over covid-19 instead of just washing their hands and social distancing. We still have people that are Fanatics about wearing the mask up here even though we know that masks are useless unless it's a fitted mask. So we also had the problem up here in Canada of everybody who passed away dying of covid-19 even though they didn't verify it. So it's really tragic to see what you're talking about in this article but based on what my wife has to deal with from her own family and others because of discrimination or segregation due to policies put forth by the white man that caused division Within these native communities.
When my wife went to Honduras a couple years ago before covid, everybody thought she was Hispanic. When she'd come to the USA to go to military my dining ins, Hispanics thought she was Hispanic and not Canadian Indian. She didn't feel any racism whatsoever in the USA. As soon as she came to Canada, she gets followed in the store and security is called to her aisle or employees pretend to be stocking when they were looking at her, my wife doesn't dress up like a street person, she dresses really nice and has one of those $500 handbags from coach brand whatever. She gets challenged to ask if this is her debit or credit card. She proves to them that she is they say she is because she has a truck driver's license which you guys call Class A yet she still considered indigent, on welfare, yes she's never been on welfare. After my wife had an aneurysm and spent three weeks in the hospital and recovered, she had to go to an intake for mental health because it's normal for people who have aneurysms to feel depressed it does play with their mind. When she went to go see the medical intake from Alberta Health Care. They didn't ask her what she was in there for. They asked her if she needed gas money? The after if she had a car? They asked those questions instead of asking her what happened? So you have a lot of racism in Canada and I'm sure in the USA against First Nations or Inuits or those original Americans. Many of them live in isolation. Many of them walk in the middle of a snowstorm to go get something to eat. It could be going to a local store and buy macaroni and cheese some cheap staple because they don't have much money. So hopefully things get better but it's really sad to see how bad things are these last few decades. Canadian Indians were not even allowed to leave the reservation without an Indian agent until the 1970s. When native Canadians served in World War I, World War II or korea, they didn't get the same benefits like a white man did. They didn't get land in a homestead.
The list goes on and on. I believe the reason that my wife married me is because I am not exactly white because I have Hispanic blood in me and my grandmother was black Indian mix or m u l a t o. She knows I have two cultures and I speak Spanish so she wouldn't consider me a wasp. She also knows that if she's with me, this could keep her out of trouble when being pulled over by the police or in other situations such as going to a restaurant and being served and not being given the cold shoulder or not served at all. After we came back in 2015 after my sister committed suicide, we went to her funeral and we went to Disneyland to try to forget about the sadness of my sister's funeral. When we flew back to Canada, right after we passed customs and Border enforcement and we're waiting for our baggage, a Canadian man reminded my wife that she was back in Canada because he called her a SQUAW. That's like using the n-word against the black man. I didn't hear this I was getting the bag but she told me but I probably would have screamed the guy and punched him and probably got kicked out of the country. This is not unprecedented, if you watch Jeremiah Johnson movie with Robert Redford, A white guy called his wife a SQUAW and he got touched out by Robert Redford.
Democrats talk about equity and equality but they're having to go a long way and be inclusive of everybody and not push Critical Race Theory and make you hate white people or make white people hate themselves.
That's a form of racism. Like Dr. Ben Carson said, Critical Race Theory is replacing one form of racism with another. We shouldn't do it against our own people and feel white guilt and we should do our best to be accepting of other cultures and other races. I've gone to at least 10 different sweats with my wife. I was the token white guy in the sweat that's where you go inside an enclosed structure covered with skins or blankets and the medicine man praise and throws hot water onto heated rocks and we pray. It's an ancient custom and nobody ever discriminated against me. People came hundreds of miles away to go to the sweat but we happen to know a medicine man who was only 45 minutes away from Edmonton. So the indigenous people are accepting of me yet the white people are not accepting of the indigenous people in Canada and the USA.
If there are typos in this rant of mine, I will fix it later. I am using voice text.
SGT Alan Martinez
https://youtu.be/7mKZ7PBfCXA
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MSG Stan Hutchison it also pits them against each other. My wife and I have gone to sweats with real medicine men and I have seen real Supernatural stuff that you probably won't believe. When I see my wife burn Sweetgrass to smudge, some of the Indians considered to me. The residential schools were successful in many instances of taking the Indian out of the boy or girl and turning them into fatalities and unmarked Graves and others, broken, disenfranchised having post-traumatic stress and often turn them into alcoholics. My wife and I are both sober now and she has lost so many friends and relatives to alcoholism or neglect of sober Elders by alcoholic siblings who don't take care of them and they die of pneumonia at home because nobody checks on an 80 year old woman living on the reservation Town site but they have money to go to the casino. My wife has family that is Christian and hates anything to do with Native tradition. My wife has a lot of resentment because of that. The churches are trying to incorporate some Indian Traditions within the Catholic mass. My wife is too resentful to go to them. She used to go to Sacred Heart Church in Edmonton and they are very in touch with the native community and they incorporate the fire, air earth water symbol and they have some of the mass or some of the responsorial songs in Cree. We also have different Protestant denominations that do the same thing or that were used to indoctrinate the natives people to turn away against their indigenous roots. It's a sad situation when you have groups that are traditional being pitted against groups that my wife called Bible Thumpers. I respect those that want to be Christian or who go become good Christians but they should not put down those who decide or who want to maintain traditional Canadian Indian ways. The sad thing is that the language disappearing. My wife understands some of the free language, her mom, her aunt's her dad and mom all speak it besides fluent English but the cultural genocide has been successful, sadly.
Recently, and Uncle of hers was found disemboweled cut up the pieces inside his home. His upper torso is missing. We don't know if it was a serial killer or someone within the family though the rumors say that it was done by animals or by dogs on the property. He may have had a heart attack and he may have been eating partially. Investigation is ongoing with the police really don't care. Missing and murder Aboriginal people are looked at as another drunk Indian.
https://youtu.be/ppuFdTY7CLU
Recently, and Uncle of hers was found disemboweled cut up the pieces inside his home. His upper torso is missing. We don't know if it was a serial killer or someone within the family though the rumors say that it was done by animals or by dogs on the property. He may have had a heart attack and he may have been eating partially. Investigation is ongoing with the police really don't care. Missing and murder Aboriginal people are looked at as another drunk Indian.
https://youtu.be/ppuFdTY7CLU
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MSG Stan Hutchison correction using voice text when I my wife smudges or they pray to the great spirit, they consider it witchcraft because they've been brainwashed by Christianity.
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MSG Stan Hutchison I didn't know if the Indian Health Service was short of money but I think the Biden Administration made sure that they wouldn't run out of money. They are still rampant racism of indigenous people in canada. Some areas are more prone than others. Also, new immigrants are nicer to my wife but immigrants who've been here for a while who have been indoctrinated by others to be discriminatory are often mean to her. They assume that most indigenous people are drunk. Yes, there are many that are drunk, that are Street people that are homeless and have broken families. Many have died from a drug addiction but they're also many who have succeeded and even their own people put them down because of jealousy.
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