Read “Chapter 12: Modernity—Health and Water” in your course textbook, Belshaw, John. Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada. PressBooks, 2020. 1. Why were some Indigenous communities relocated in the twentieth century? 2. What are some of the main themes of Indigenous health history in the last 150 years? 3. What were the main findings of Ian Mosby’s study of children’s health in residential schools? How did it come to be the focus of media attention? 4. In what ways did Indigenous peoples in the West experience a health crisis in the late nineteenth century? According to Daschuk, what were the causes? 5. What does Adele Perry’s study of Shoal Lake 40 (the brief version in the textbook) tell you about modernity and Indigeneity? 6. In what ways did mid-century administration of Indigenous health actually compromise Indigenous health? 7. In what ways and why does Brittany Luby say that modern engineering works changed Indigenous ways of seeing nutrition? 8. Mary-Ellen Kelm’s research posits the colonization of actual Indigenous bodies. What does that mean and, assuming she’s right, how did that take place? Readings Belshaw, John. Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada. PressBooks, 2020. Daschuk, James W. “The Nadir of Indigenous Health, 1886–91.” In Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, 159–80.Regina: University of Regina Press, 2013. Drees, Laurie Meijer. “The Nanaimo and Charles Camsell Indian Hospitals: First Nations’ Narratives of Health Care, 1945 to 1965.” Histoire sociale/Social History 43, no. 85 (2010): 165–91. Kelm, Mary-Ellen. Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health in British Columbia, 1900–50. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998. Luby, Brittany. “Transforming Indigenous Foodways.” Active History, January 28, 2014. http://activehistory.ca/2014/01/transforming-indigenous-foodways/ McCallum, Mary Jane Logan. “Starvation, Experimentation, Segregation, and Trauma: Words for Reading Indigenous Health History.” Canadian Historical Review 98, no. 1 (March 2017): 96–113. Mosby, Ian. “Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952.” Histoire sociale/Social History 46, no.1 (2013): 145–72. Tobias, John L. “Canada’s Subjugation of the Plains Cree, 1879–1885.” Canadian Historical Review 64, no. 4 (1983): 519–48.
