POST #11 – Indigenous Health Histories

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.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadians-would-be-shocked-survivors-lawyers-describe-treatment-at-nanaimo-indian-hospital-1.4513476

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

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