Collected Item: “Indigenous Peoples and Vaccine's”
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Indigenous Peoples and Vaccine's
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Instagram
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
One of the reasons Indigenous people aged 55+ were included in the initial COVID vaccine protocols is that is our average life expectancy. Compare this to ages 75+ for non-Indigenous people. After 154 years of Western medicine, we live half of what we did at the time of Contact.
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vaccine, life expectancy, Indigenous, Western medicine, age, elders, ASU, HST580
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CNEzqPJLdG2/
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@decolonizemyself
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2021-03-31