Hospitals - Indigenous Resources - Background, Policy, Analysis

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Possible Search terms include (and individual terms may be combined as you wish):

indian hospital

indian hospitals canada

indian hospitals manitoba

tuberculosis sanatorium

brandon sanatorium

See below for a short selection of links to specific aspects for this topic.

Indian Hospitals in Canada
Canadian Encyclopedia Entry
$1.1B class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of former 'Indian hospital' patients
CBC News Story: 30 January 2018
BU Library Guide: Indigenous Resources: Links & Online Sources: Health
Brandon Sanatorium named in lawsuit filed on behalf of 'Indian hospital' patients
Brandon Sun
3 February 2018
'Canadians would be shocked': Survivors, lawyers describe treatment at Nanaimo Indian Hospital
CBC News Story: 1 February 2018
External Review: Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women
Dr. Yvonne Boyer & Dr. Judith Bartlett
July 22, 2017
Site links to full report, news release, and video of news conference
Former Edmonton hospital still haunts families searching for lost loved ones
APTN News Story: 9 July 2015
Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba, 1930-1970
The "...website of “Indigenous Histories of Tuberculosis in Manitoba, 1930-1970,” a major research project led by Dr. Mary Jane McCallum of the University of Winnipeg. Funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, this project explores the experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who were treated for tuberculosis in Manitoba between 1930 and 1970. "
Mistreated: The legacy of segregated hospitals haunts Indigenous survivors
CBC News story/Lauren Pelley/January 29, 2018/"CBC spoke to numerous hospital survivors and researchers about this segregated health-care system, as well as activists hoping to broaden the conversation about reconciliation and expose how decades of isolation and mistreatment have harmed First Nations and Inuit communities to this day."
'Our people were experimented on': Indigenous sanatorium survivors recall medical tests
CBC News Story: 22 January 2017
Research shedding light on dark history of treating 'Indian TB' in Manitoba
Brandon Sun Story 18 June, 2016
Soapstone and seed beads : arts and crafts at the Charles Camsell Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium
Annalisa R. Staples, Ruth L. McConnell/ and the Charles Camsell Garment Collection - Jill E. Oakes

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Provincial Museum of Alberta Special Publication #7

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