KingVargeras t1_ix9g0l9 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 7:35 PM

So this makes sense. I went and worked at a hospital on a reservation in the states for awhile. And I will tell you it was one of the most obese populations I’ve ever worked on very unhealthy even the children were unhealthy didn’t exercise and overall health in the community was very poor. The months I was there I saw less skinny natives then I have fingers. They admitted to me there was a lot of genetic issues also because of in-breading. It was honestly very sad. They had all this beautiful land and their elders wouldn’t approve improvements and kept all the young held hostage to progress.

swiftcleaner t1_ixfjio2 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:34 AM

I’m confused by the people who equate “Indigenous” with “reservations.” I don’t know if the study is specifically saying “indigenous people from reservations,” but there are millions of indigenous people living normal everyday, modern lives in major cities in the US.