Nonetheless, my figure show that the life expectancy and infant mortality of Canadian First Nations people, while lagging behind the rest of Canada, are better than Native Americans in the US (and much better than Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders here in Australia).
Really? That's a surprise to me. I had always assumed that the situation was better for Aboriginal peoples in the U.S., because one doesn't hear much about protests, land claims cases, or other issues relating to their position and situation. For at least the past 18 years, since the Kanesatake Mohawk action at Oka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis), the media have been covering Aboriginal issues very closely, and I'd have thought that there would be the same kind of actions and media coverage in the U.S. if matters were as bad there as they are here.
Of course, we almost never hear anything about Australia, although I knew that the history of Australian Aboriginal peoples after colonisation had a lot of similarities with what happened in North America. (Most of what I know, I learned from reading I did after the media focus on Cathy Freeman at the Sydney games, and from seeing Rabbit-Proof Fence.)
What, if anything, seems to be changing following the Australian apology?
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Really? That's a surprise to me. I had always assumed that the situation was better for Aboriginal peoples in the U.S., because one doesn't hear much about protests, land claims cases, or other issues relating to their position and situation. For at least the past 18 years, since the Kanesatake Mohawk action at Oka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis), the media have been covering Aboriginal issues very closely, and I'd have thought that there would be the same kind of actions and media coverage in the U.S. if matters were as bad there as they are here.
Of course, we almost never hear anything about Australia, although I knew that the history of Australian Aboriginal peoples after colonisation had a lot of similarities with what happened in North America. (Most of what I know, I learned from reading I did after the media focus on Cathy Freeman at the Sydney games, and from seeing Rabbit-Proof Fence.)
What, if anything, seems to be changing following the Australian apology?