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COVID-19 adds a new snag to the 2020 census count of Native Americans

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    (for non-US Tilderinos, we conduct a census every 10 years, all the way back to 1790, as required by our Constitution)

    (for non-US Tilderinos, we conduct a census every 10 years, all the way back to 1790, as required by our Constitution)

    Because of the inaccurate calculation of their population—the 2010 census undercounted Native Americans on reservations by 4.9 percent—tribal communities lost thousands of dollars in federal funding and risked losing representation for their states in the House of Representatives.

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      Interesting, I didn't know the US census goes back that far and has been regularly recurring for so long. Up here in Canada we have had a slightly more spotty record with our censuses, which only...

      Interesting, I didn't know the US census goes back that far and has been regularly recurring for so long. Up here in Canada we have had a slightly more spotty record with our censuses, which only started regularly recurring every 10 years in 1851, but changed to every 5 years in 1956. See: https://libguides.tru.ca/censuscanada/history

      p.s. Our most current census data (1981-2016) can also be found here:
      https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/datasets/index-eng.cfm

      The historical census data is a bit harder to find though:
      https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx#b
      https://mdl.library.utoronto.ca/collections/numeric-data/census-canada/historical

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