Starving children, withholding information was horrific policy; Academics and health researchers built a healthy new Canada shamefully using the broken bodies of our kids as test subjects

Food and nutrition were withheld from some children; others received minimal baseline amounts while control groups received the full supplement. Since gum health was a good measure of malnourishment, dental treatment was withheld and many children had all of their teeth pulled. If we are going to re...

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Published inThe Vancouver sun (1986)
Main Authors Arbour, Laura, Jody Butler Walker, Caron, Nadine, Jovel, Eduardo, Lalonde, Chris, Mccormick, Rod, Thira, Sharon, Vedan, Richard
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver, B.C Postmedia Network Inc 23.07.2013
Subjects
Families & family life
Famine
Native North Americans
Native peoples
R&D
Research & development
Canada
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Summary:Food and nutrition were withheld from some children; others received minimal baseline amounts while control groups received the full supplement. Since gum health was a good measure of malnourishment, dental treatment was withheld and many children had all of their teeth pulled. If we are going to redress historical harms, address the ongoing harm caused by the health gap that exists between indigenous peoples and the rest of the population, we need communities, universities and governments to work together.
ISSN:0832-1299