My digital journey in Module 3, is sourced from my research for Assignment 3 Final Project Paper, focusing on community-based health education and use of technology.
In ETEC521 we have discussed the crimes and suffering associated with the residential school policy, however I was not aware of the atrocities that happened in Indian Hospitals which included restraining indigenous children in hospital beds for years, physical and sexual abuse, and experimentation.
Meijer Drees, Laurie. (2013) Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals, gives testimonies of the survivors of Indian hospitals that are shocking. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Healing-Histories-Stories-Canadas-Hospitals/dp/088864650X
In Australia the State’s involvement in perpetuating atrocities to the well-being of indigenous, in youth detention centres continues to go on today, as described here. https://theconversation.com/why-are-so-many-indigenous-kids-in-detention-in-the-nt-in-the-first-place-63257