Death Rate of American Indian Infants Doubles Whites in Some States

**Linda Kelso** · 07-06-2011

American Indian infants in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota are roughly twice as likely to die as white infants, and health officials say the best defense is prevention and education, reported The Grand Forks Herald.

American Indian infants tend to face greater risks, including being born prematurely, having teenage mothers, growing up in poverty, or having a mother who smoked or used alcohol or other drugs during pregnancy.

The Herald stresses that one of the highest risk factors is sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

A Minnesota infant mortality study revealed that nearly half of the babies who died from SIDS or other sleep-related causes during 2005-2007 were American Indians. The study included infants who were suffocated while sleeping in bed with a parent who accidentally rolled over the child during sleep.

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**PWR** · 07-06-2011

"American Indian infants tend to face greater risks, including being born prematurely, having teenage mothers, growing up in POVERTY, or having a mother who smoked or used alcohol or other drugs during pregnancy."
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Ah, the old poverty card strikes again. Drugs and booze are expensive and often little is left for necessities.

If a RICH, drunk 400# mama passed out atop her infant, wouldn't it be just as dead as one in poverty?

**Linda Kelso** · 07-06-2011

I was thinking the same thing, PWR. The prevalence of abandonment and drug use by these people is astounding. How can you play the race card when you're the one ingesting the substances?

**Lewis Clark** · 07-06-2011

There a more than a few Stories to tell on this subject (around here).
It doesn't come out in the P.C. media though. These unfortunate cases likely
involved Aboriginals:

"A two-year-old girl has died after falling eight storeys from an apartment building window in New Westminster — one of two children to tumble out of windows in the city Friday, police say
The second incident occurred two hours later, when a 20-month-old boy fell from a window, but survived and is expected to recover. The distance the boy fell and the location were not immediately available."