Unfair incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples- assignment

Read the following article:

http://www.lfpress.com/2016/03/23/statistics-canada-report-finds-indigenous-youths-made-up-one-third-of-youths-jailed-last-year

and be prepared to answer the following points and post in a google doc. This is your assignment: 

1. Write two questions that you have about the epidemic of Indigenous adults and youth in jail.

2. What is your reaction to the article and the over incarceration of Indigenous peoples in Canada?

3. Identify one social science lens that would be useful to analyze this problem.  Why would this way of understand a social problem help you?

4. Find one similarity to the African-American and Latino communities being incarcerated in the United States.

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