Many Indigenous people around the globe are very sad, insecure, unstable, scared, hungry and miserable. Invader imposed suppression and exclusion from natural culture and opportunity results in shame, humiliated and hopelessness.
Young Indigenous people have lost their hope for a better life. They are exploited and often enslaved by alcohol and drugs. These conditions of despair and misery cause the epidemic of violence and suicide.
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Please note: The following is 2013 data.
It is our time to take the biggest stand in our history as an invaded people. I believe that Aboriginal people have now reached the point where going forward means challenging the status quo and altering our history.
We have two choices: to de-colonize ourselves and become free and independent people pursuing our own chosen destiny through the process of self-determination, or to acquiesce and become assimilated into the invader society, degrading our culture to mere museum pieces in which we perform like trained monkeys for the tourists.