INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Norway House Cree Nation, Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation, Jordan River
12 Jan 2017
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Health is comprised of many factors and is one of our most precious assets. There are a series of social determinants of health like housing, early childhood development, employment conditions, globalization, social exclusion, health systems, propriety public health conditions, measurement and evidence, gender equity and urbanizations. Health care has been used as a tool of colonization. Populations and forced intense changes in communities and nations. As the government began to legislate every aspect of indg. Residential schools had horrible health records thousands died through different sicknesses, especially tb. Experiments were done in residential schools that took further tolls on their health there were nutritional experiments ad experiments with vaccines and other medicines. Force sterilizations occurred, particularly between 1937 and 1972 in ab and bc. In addition to poisoning of land in places such as grassy narrows. Inferior infrastructure and services in communities amplified these colonization related health issues many communities under boil-water advisories.
