The Canary Effect Summary

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The documentary film “The Canary Effect” was quite disturbing from a sociological and spiritual perspective. Americans are well aware of the historical atrocities performed by the American government on the American Natives/Alaska Indians (AN/AI). These historical atrocities included stealing their land and forcing them to live on reservations. Though what was new to me and probably would be to most people are that the atrocities continue through a lack of sociological understanding by the government and the American public in what the AN/AI experience and have experienced, through racism, disenfranchisement, poverty and poor access to healthcare. To learn of the continued suffering of this population to this day including healthcare issues, adult and teen suicides and the poverty surrounding them, angers me to the extent that during the film I kept asking myself “How can I help?” The absolute worse evil we, as a society historically and currently, have caused these people is the denial …show more content…
Their comments were condescending and ignorant. If the President of the United States cannot understand part of his/her constituency how will the rest of white-America understand? White-America is who holds the power and the purse strings in our country, which results in the AN/AI not receiving the financial assistance required to help them out of this endless cycle of pain, depression and poverty along with so many other issues including poor healthcare. I had never known that an entire generation lost half of its children, or of the Red Lake Tragedy, or that in some areas 50% of the 9th grade girls have attempted suicide. It is outrageous that the news media does not report on these tragedies with greater frequency and intensity, sadly it is no different regarding other minority involved crimes unless a white person is
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