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Online project explores Indigenous tuberculosis historywhose mother Theresa McKay spent four years of her young life in the Ninette Sanatorium. Her mother, who died in 1992, was a Metis victim of the ’60s scoop who stayed at the sanatorium from when she was 12 years old until she was 16.Though her mother did talk fondly about the nuns who ran the hospital, and even named one of her daughter’s after one kind nurse, Huntinghawk said her experience there affected every part of her mother’s life.“She had a lot of depression, anxiety and mental health issues, and she had heart problems. She should have been a teenager, going to school and living life, instead of being confined to a bed for four years.Huntinghawk, who works at the Brandon Friendship Centre as a ’60s scoop program co-ordinator, said she applied to be part of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of former patients of the system that named the Brandon Indian Hospital as one of 29 segregated hospitals in early 2022.The $1.1-billion lawsuitcites allegations of widespread mistreatment and abuse of patients at the sanatoriums. Huntinghawk has helped others who have come to her at the Friendship Centre to file a claim with the lawsuit as well.BY MIRANDA LEYBOURNELOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVEA new website about Indigenous tuberculosis history in Manitoba is now available from the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project.The community-led, Indigenous-centred health history project has been working towards sharing and recovering histories of Indigenous tuberculosis in Manitoba spanning decades, from the 1930s to 70s.The project was launched at the National Gathering of Elders in September 2019 in response to a demand from Indigenous communities for more resources about the topic. From in-person photo workshops before the COV1D-19 pandemic to virtual public talks during the last two years, the goal of the project is to advocate for Indigenous access to Indigenous historical records.The website, which launched on June 21 — National Indigenous Peoples Day — features the histories of tuberculosis sanatoriums and Indian hospitals in Manitoba, a searchable database of photos of Indigenous patients and staff and digitized and searchable historical publications from the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba. The website is alsoPart of a tuberculosis sanatorium. (Manitoba Lung Association)
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jul 07, 2022
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