Examples Of Structural Issues Affecting Indigenous People

There are structural issues that are affecting the indigenous people. Who are the indigenous people and how are they different than others? There is no real definition of indigenous people but they are the people who belonged to a part of a region or a country. There are a lot of indigenous people around the world, but there are a lot of indigenous people who have been killed because of diseases and more reasons. Apparently in the Global Issues article, there are approximately 370 million indigenous people in 70 courtiers’ and many indigenous families have issues living and have a lot of conflicts to access resources because of where they live and indigenous people are one of the unluckiest group of people in the world. The structural issues

The indigenous people rely on traditional healers to relief the sickness of those ones who are sick. For example in America “ 40% of indigenous peoples lack access to orthodox health care services and 80% rely on traditional healers as their primary health care provider.” (Anaquot.2008) I believe this is a really huge issue for indigenous people because the quality of their life is really poor. This might cause people die because of medical issues that can be fixed with a normal treatment. The reason they can’t provide Medicare in some places is because the distance is a problem along with the price of transportation in some rural areas that indigenous people live in. In this Article is also state that they have a cultural barrier that is not letting them have good Medicare because they don’t have a good understanding of the help of medication. They believe that it’s inappropriate and offensive; I believe it’s alright and normal to have good medication because they are there to help the indigenous people but they don’t understand this. With good medication the death rate of indigenous people will decrease but they try traditionally to cure the