History of Science 2151F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Norway House, Asteroid Family

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2151F/G

Document Summary

Administering colonial science: nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in. Struck by the frightening toll that malnutrition and hunger appeared to be taking. Researchers found that conditions were deplorable where the old people were almost starved and were plainly not get- ting enough food to enable them to much more than keep alive. One-to-two-year study on indians to demonstrate the effects of nutritional interventions into the diet of an already malnourished population. Prevalence of malnutrition in remote aboriginal communities or in residential schools, there had been warnings of widespread hunger in both for decades. Indicated that students were underfed and, in many cases, severely malnourished. Extensive study of the residential school system shows in considerable detail, hunger was a continual and systemic problem, and food shortages in schools were a persistent issue during the interwar years. That hunger and the frequently inedible food that children were forced to eat often dominates the memories of survivors of residential schools.