I posted some positive facts about Natives last week but now this is more of the sad struggles that those people face today.
80% of Native people today in Mexico live in extreme poverty
Almost half of Native children in Mexico are malnourished
Native people in Mexico have a lower life expectancy than non-natives in the country and probably lower than everyone else in all of North America
Due to such high rates of poverty, indigenous communities in Mexico lack access to clean water, sanitation, health clinics, education & electricity
Indigenous people in Mexico are very marginalized
The racism against them by the Mexican society is still strong today for the way they dress, talk and live. It doesn’t stop there, racism against the indigenous people of Mexico is also prevalent in the US as well to those that have migrated to the country. This causes a great many of them (more specifically Native youth) to be ashamed which leads to them wanting to assimilate, refusing to speak their Native langauges in public or at all
Roughly less than 30% of indigenous children graduate from high school in Mexico. This is due to lack of schools in their areas and language barriers as Spanish is usually indigenous children’s second language
The violence and murder against indigenous people in Mexico is high, especially against Native leaders and activists who try to protect their lands from loggers, drug trafficers and oil companies
Sexual violence against indigenous women in Mexico are reported in the millions
In 2013, 200 Native people in Mexico consisting of men, women and children were rescued from what was considered “modern day slavery”. They were being held illegally and were forced to work long hours and live in subhuman conditions.
Reminder that these struggles (and there’s a lot more) are happening to these people today and have been happening for the past 500 years
This is what what I’m saying all these years and yet, there’s neo Aztecs in the US, glorifying how Mexico and Aztlan were in the past.
They’re ignorant people who aren’t even who they claim to be, I don’t pay any attention to them plus they give a bad name to real Natives.
Nancy Sheung’s portraits of Hong Kong women in the 1960s and that plays on architectural elements and shapes, shadows and lines. Sheung (1914–1979) was a renowned pictorialist photographer who came to photography in her 40s when she purchased her first camera. She took thousands of photographs across East Asia and Hong Kong from the late 1950s to the early ’70s.
Image 1: “The Pigtail” (1966). Silver gelatin print.
Disney animator Millicent Patrick never received the deserved credit for her role in designing the iconic Gill-man costume for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
