Sociology 2245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Infant Mortality, Rheumatism, Asthma
28 Mar 2018
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Indian act of 1876: history of racist immigration system. 700,000: status indian: a legal designation that provides entitlements to certain rights and. Includes status (81%) and non-status indians benefits under the law. Inuit: approximately 50,000 (4% of indigenous people, aboriginal people who live in the far northern reaches of canada, including labrador, M tis: approximately 300,000 (about 1/3 of all indigenous people, broadly defined as those who are mixed north american indian and european ancestry and who self-identify as m tis. It was only in the constitution act of 1982 that the m tis were formally recognized by the canadian government as a founding aboriginal people. Infectious diseases: higher rates of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, rate of tuberculosis five times the rate of the general canadian population, over-represented in terms of new hiv infections and those living with hiv.
