Healing histories : stories from Canada's Indian hospitals / Laurie Meijer Drees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meijer Drees, Laurie, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--Hospitals--Canada--History--20th century.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis--Treatment--Canada--History--20th century.

Tuberculosis--Patients--Medical care--Canada--History--20th century.

Indian nurses--Canada--History--20th century.

Indian nurses.

Medical care--Canada--History--20th century.

Medical care.

Oral history--Canada.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of Aboriginal perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. This book features oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system. An intercultural history that models new methodologies and ethics for researching and writing about indigenous Canada based on indigenous understandings of "story" and its critical role in Aboriginal historicity, while moving beyond routine colonial interpretations of victimization, oppression, and cultural destruction.

Contents:

Opening remarks / Florence James, Penelakut First Nation

Preface "Storywork" : foundations

Nanaimo Indian Hospital : a patient remembers [British Columbia] / Sainty Morris

Cold needles / Laura Cranmer

1. Tuberculosis

2. Indian health services, an evolving system

Nursing Work at the United Church Hospital, Bella, Bella, British Columbia / Marge Thompson

Nursing work at the Anglican hospitals in Aklavik and Pangnirtung / Biddy Worsley

Director of Nursing at the Camsell / Elva Taylor

3. The Institutions

Indian hospitals and field nursing

Nursing at the Camsell / Marjorie Warke

Occupational therapy student : Charles Camsell Indian Hospital, 1966 [Edmonton, Alberta] / Truus van Royen

4. Patients and families

Life in and around the Indian hospitals

A Patient's memory of Nanaimo Indian Hospital / Laura Cranmer

Life as a patient in the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital / Alma Desjarlais

A Patient and a worker in British Columbia Indian hospitals / Marie Dick

Visiting the Nanaimo Indian Hospital / Delores Louie SNUWUYULTH

5. Local indigenous medicine

A Conversation about the Nanaimo Indian Hospital / Violet Charlie

Remembering Indian Health Services and Traditional Medicine on the Snuneymuxw Reserve / Ellen White

6. Working in health care

Aboriginal nurses and caregivers

Aboriginal nurse at the Camsell / Kathleen Stein hauer

Nanaimo Indian Hospital

Being a Patient and Becoming a nurse / Michael Dick

Ward Aide and Office Assistant at the Nanaimo Indian Hospital / Violet Clark

Nursing Aide at the Lac La Ronge Nursing Station / Muriel Innes

Aboriginal people and Nursing

Evelyn Voyageur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780888646927

0888646925

9780888648068

0888648065

OCLC:

865475201