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Originally Posted by ken0042
I would be curious to see what the life expectancy for Aboriginals is today. All of Canada is in the high 70's. I would suspect that for Aboriginals it would be lower than the average; not higher.
Plus, for myself I would rather have 40 great years than 70 crappy ones.
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Well according to this article, life expectancy for Natives in 1982 was:
The life expectancy at one year of age is 63.4 years for Indians and 72.8 for the national population
http://www.tgmag.ca/magic/mt2.html
So 10 years less than the national average so should be high 60's to low 70's.
Not to mention, who said their 40's was great? I would hazard to quess not so much. Having to scratch a living out of 8 months of canadian winter living in a teepee don't seem great to me. But what do I know....the only thing I have done close to that was a weekend in 4-H when we lived in straw huts in -30 C weather....not so pleasant.