Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952

Mosby, Ian

doi:10.1353/his.2013.0015

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“…2 The timeline for data collection, community reporting, data training workshops and release of regional reports in the eight AFN regions Many invaluable lessons can be learned from the design and implementation of FNFNES. There is a long history of research involving First Nations that has been mired by racist, privileged and colonialist attitudes and has not been respectful and inclusive of Indigenous worldviews (Anderson 2019;Mosby 2013;McCallum 2017). First Nations peoples have reclaimed governance over the research agenda by supporting community-based participatory approaches, which evolved from the early 1990s and led to the establishment of the OCAP® principles, a set of standards that establish how First Nations data should be collected, protected, used and shared (https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/).…”

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The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008–2018)—rationale, design, methods and lessons learned

Chan

Fediuk

Batal

et al. 2021

Can J Public Health

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Objective To describe the rationale, the participatory nature of the methodology, and the lessons learned during the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (FNFNES), a community-based participatory research project implemented in eight Assembly of First Nations regions, which includes the entirety of Canada south of the 60th parallel. Methods FNFNES respected the First Nations principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP®) (https://fnigc.ca/ocap). A random sampling strategy based on an ecosystem framework comprising 11 ecozones was adopted to collect representative nutritional and environmental health results for all First Nations adults living on-reserve south of the 60th parallel. Data collection occurred during the fall months from 2008 to 2016. Respective First Nations were involved in the planning and implementation of data collection for the five principal components: household interviews, tap water sampling for metals, surface water sampling for pharmaceuticals, hair sampling for mercury, and traditional food sampling for contaminants. Results A total of 6487 adults from 92 First Nations participated in the Study (participation rate 78%). A higher percentage of females (66%) participated than males (34%). The average age of males and females was similar (44 and 45 years, respectively). This study offers a novel body of coherent and regionally representative evidence on the human dimension of the ongoing environmental degradation affecting First Nations. Conclusion FNFNES serves as a good example of participatory research. We encourage public health professionals to develop policy and programs building on the participatory dimension of the research as well as on its results. The information collected by the FNFNES is also important for community empowerment, environmental stewardship and the general promotion of good health by and for First Nations peoples in Canada.

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The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008–2018)—rationale, design, methods and lessons learned

Chan

Fediuk

Batal

et al. 2021

Can J Public Health

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“…The colonial history of Western research has been largely exploitive and pathologizing, actively reinforcing inequalities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people (Brant Castellano, 2004;Smith, 2012). Medical and nutritional experiments in First Nations, residential schools, and Indian hospitals are examples of harmful research (Geddes, 2017;Mosby, 2013;Elder Joan Morris, personal communication, 2015). In response to this and in alignment with community priorities, we used a peer-led CBPR arts-based approach to attend to inherent power imbalances of research (Greene et al, 2015).…”

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Indigenous Women Voicing Experiences of HIV Stigma and Criminalization Through Art

Sanderson¹,

Ranville

Gurney³

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IJIH

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Indigenous women living with HIV are disproportionately affected by the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure. The purpose of this paper is to better understand how the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure shapes the lived experiences of HIV-related stigma, disclosure, and health service among cis and transgender Indigenous women living with HIV (IWLWH). This study was developed based on a community roundtable on HIV criminalization with engagement of legal experts, HIV service organizations, and IWLWH on the unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the ter̓ritories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) in 2016 to 2018. Drawing on community-based participatory photovoice methodology, Indigenous Peer Researchers played a central role throughout this project, including planning, facilitation of photo-voice workshops, and analysis. This analysis includes 17 IWLWH. Through a peer-engaged analysis process, the photovoice images and narratives illustrated how the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure is intertwined with colonial violence to shape experiences of social isolation and exclusion, disclosure, access to safe health care, responsibility, fear, and resilience. The legal requirements of HIV nondisclosure are unattainable for many IWLWH who are not able to safely disclose their HIV status, negotiate condom use, and maintain a low viral load. In line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the justice system must be reoriented from punishment and oppression to healing and wellbeing for all Indigenous women living with HIV. Simultaneously, we call for culturally safe services that protect privacy and recognize strengths of IWLWH.

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“…Nurses were part of the barbaric medical and nutritional experiments enforced on the children in these schools without consent or knowledge from either the children or their parents. For example, nurses deliberately starved children of food and nutrients to create the Canada Food Guide and deliberately caused ear infections in children to test different 'therapies' and antibiotics (Mosby, 2013;Porter, 2013). Many children died from these experiments during their time at the schools, or shortly thereafter; in some schools, the mortality rate exceeded 50% (Mosby, 2013).…”

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“…It is perplexing as these are not 'discoveries' at all. Indigenous people have always known about these massacres, about the children who would go out to the field at night and never return; about the bodies that were never returned to their families; about the children who were told their parents never wanted to see them again and were forcibly placed into settlers' homes; children who were tortured and molested to 'beat the Indian out of the child'; the countless suicides in bathrooms; and the forced abortions and sterilizations of girls who were raped by priests and clergy, to name only a few of the atrocities (Berrera, 2021;Mosby, 2013). Indigenous people have been screaming and pleading for decades to be heard, to be listened to, and to be believed (Kestler-D'Amour, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

No more settler tears, no more humanitarian consternation: Recognizing our racist history and present NOW!

Larocque

Foth

Gifford

2021

CJCND

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Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952

Cited by 241 publications

References 35 publications

The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008–2018)—rationale, design, methods and lessons learned

The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008–2018)—rationale, design, methods and lessons learned

Indigenous Women Voicing Experiences of HIV Stigma and Criminalization Through Art

No more settler tears, no more humanitarian consternation: Recognizing our racist history and present NOW!

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