TRN125Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Health Service, Health Care In Canada, Indian Act
26 May 2013
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Bringing them into the fold of western scientific medicine. Assimilation and modernization: first nations, natives to modern canadian health system. Getting access to resources -> forests, lakes (water), land for industrial development. Indian health services thought of themselves as a long standing benevolence; canadian state as being seen as generous; infantilizing of the indigenous people. Other motivations: indigenous people being demonstrated as reservoirs for infectious diseases. Sovereignty in the arctic in context of cold war. Huge majority of the indian work force are nurses, but they are not aboriginal nurses; almost entirely white nurses. Indian act 1869 and successive amendments central legislation governing indigenous-state relations in canada: deeply controversial! Indian status: confers entitlement to live on collectively owned reserve land and access indigenious and treaty rights including health and educational benefits: enfranchisement: involuntary or voluntary loss of status and gaining canadian citizen. Labour history of community health representatives (chrs: why does mccallum describe the chrs" work as hybrid.
