Those round cookie tins found in many Indigenous homes are 0% likely to contain cookies and 97% likely to contain sewing or beading supplies.
That’s according to the results of a groundbreaking new study released on Thursday.
“These findings should come as no surprise to Indigenous children who see these cookie tins in their mother’s or kokum’s closet and rush to open it in pursuit of a treat,” said lead researcher Angus Eaglestick.
“Only to find—with deep sadness and great disappointment I might add—beads, thread or in 3% of cases, old photographs or papers.”
The report also suggests that in refrigerators owned by Indigenous people, plastic margarine containers are at least 87% more likely to contain leftover stew or soup than margarine.