HIST209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Aboriginal Health Organization, Sioux Lookout, Mastocytoma
3 Aug 2016
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Imperial expansion coming out of great britain, germany + us at end of 19th century. Imperial ethos seen as inferior if you didn"t speak english, weren"t familiar with technology, weren"t white for that matter. First nations were referred to as wards of state, not seen as fully- functioning adults. British north america act, 1867 gave responsibility for first nations to. Federal gov. appointed indian agents but nwmp surgeons provided care in. Poverty rates shot up: trying to learn how to be farmers in a terrain where technologies were not developed/familiar to farmers, movable stationary but super crowded homes because of poverty. Epidemics of tb and other diseases of poverty hit the reserves: immune systems were down, depression levels were high + everyone was all up in each other"s space tb spread rapidly. 1891 - aboriginal population 120,000: aboriginal population made up such a small proportion of overall population, which may be why government had such a lackadaisical approach .
