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

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.