Aboriginal Law & Indigenous Laws

Includes
David B. MacDonald, "Indigenous Health in the Aftermath of Genocide: Healing and Reconciliation After the Indian Residential Schools Experience in Canada"
Seth Adema, "Helping His Brothers and Sisters Heal: Arthur Solomon and Penal Reform in Canada"
Paul Depasquale, "Manitoba Hydro's Promotional Materials as Colonialist Discourse"
Caroline L. Tait, Robert Henry & Rachel Loewen Walker, "Child Welfare: A Social Determinant of Health for Canadian First Nations and Metis Children"
Ioana Radu, "Uschiniichisuu Futures: Healing, Empowerment, and Agency Among the Chisasibi Cree Youth"
Alicia Powell & Chelse Gabel, "Addressing Inequalities: Understanding Indigenous Health Policy in Urban Ontario, Canada"

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the Hand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large.