Essay On Aboriginal Marginalization

STATISTICS SIGNIFICANCE
Statistic 1: 28% of the Aboriginal community are victims of at least one crime compared to 18% of non-Aboriginals.
163 violent incidents of becoming a victim of crime among 1000 Natives
74 violent incidents of becoming a victim of crime among 1000 non-Natives
Natives experience more than double the overall victimization rates than non-Indigenous people
Significance: This data showcases the overall injustices discrimination this social group feels in Canadian society. Social scientists must explain and consider why Aboriginals are considered easy prey or targets next to non-Aboriginals. Speculations of how governments treat and react to Aboriginal tragedies may clarify our understanding but still does not deem their misery any easier to deal with. Furthermore, these crimes include robbery and physical assault but the
most common crime among this group is sexual assault. Scientists can utilize this knowledge to attempt to solve the greater social stigma around rape culture as even the minorities are tolerating this.
Statistic 2: Nearly half of Aboriginal children 14 and younger, live with both parents at home whilst 74% of non-Aboriginal children live with both parents
43% of First Nations
57% of Métis
58% of Inuit
Respectfully, almost half of Indigenous children live with one parent
Significance: Social scientists can manipulate this statistic to understand the long-term effects of Canada’s social hierarchy as perceiving Indigenous citizens as easy prey.
In further detail, Canada deals with alarming injustices that mainly Aboriginal communities feel such as the case of missing/murdered Aboriginal females, their higher rates of suicide, and drug abuse. Serial killers such as Pickton target Aboriginal females because of how marginalized they are within our society, thus making it easier to get away with crimes of his nature. When an entire group is suffering, their trauma’s are essentially passed down to the younger generations. Furthermore, one can rightfully assume through trends regarding Native injustices that the missing spouse may have committed suicide, may be missing, or the mother may have been raped. To end, social scientists can formulate a solution to shift society’s negative perception of Indigenous people to allow Native children to prosper in their future instead of creating a cycle of divorce or normalizing single parent households because non-Native children won’t feel this grief anytime
soon.

Statistic 3: Nearly 1 in 2 Inuit people over the age of 12 smoke cigarettes daily whilst the corresponding statistic for non-Native people is only 15%.
49% of Inuit
26% of Métis
27% of off-reserve First Nations
These rates remained in the same order for heavy drinking
Significance: From this fact, social scientists may be able to explain how this minority group is coping with their misfortunes. One can even safely assume due to their lack of education resources, Indigenous people are turning to bad habits in hopes to numb their emotional pain or distract themselves from the poor nature of their community. This statistic can also predict how other minorities may react to adversities. Moreover, it’s quite interesting to see the Inuit community have significantly higher rates of smoking than First Nations. Social scientists can look further in their physical and cultural environment to provide an explanation to this. I’d assume cigarettes are more accessible to youth or the Inuit community experienced greater isolation because they are mostly populated in the arctic territories.