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As of 2016, 87% of indigenous people in Canada faces a little to a lot of discrimination (number from abacus data). They are the most discriminated community after Muslim people. In Canada, they face even more racism than Black people.

Canada claims to be an open-minded country, a home for diversity however that does not seem to apply to indigenous people living in the country. They don't hold the same rights as other Canadian citizens.

Indigenous peoples had lived on the American continent long before the arrival of Europeans. . White people enslaved and slaughtered them, and today, they fight to keep their heritage alive. They represent 4.9% of the national population, with 977,230 First Nations people, 587,545 Métis, and 65,025 Inuit, but in Canada, according to the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, aboriginals make up about 19 per cent of federal prisoners,  Between 1997 and 2000, they were ten times more likely to be accused of homicide than non-aboriginal people. The rate of natives in Canadian prisons climbed 22 per cent between 1996 and 2004, while the general prison population dropped 12 per cent. These numbers show the systemic oppression aboriginal people face.

Indigenous people in Canada struggle with poorer health, and poorer access to healthcare; lower education level; inadequate housing; lower income levels; lower rates of employment; higher death among youth due to unintentional injuries; higher rates of suicide; and, as stated above, higher rates of incarceration.

They are either forced to segregate themselves from society, or to abandon their culture. The diversity between the indigenous tribes is not acknowledged. They are slowly being erased from the world.