so you know how the DV caloric reqs on food are like notoriously low? Well…turns out settlers in Canada starved Native children in their ‘boarding schools’ to find out what the minimum requirement to sustain life was during their ‘nutrition experiments’
this is so filthy. this is so absolutely soulless like it’s already so bad but if anything people absolutely need to know these children’s stories bc this is real colonial history.
holy shit.
Canada used hungry indigenous children to study malnutrition
To me, the term settlers carries the implication of “this happened a long time ago, in the 1800s”.
I want to clarify that this was a lot more recent than that. We’re talking the 1940s and 1950s. People from this time are still alive.
It’s absolutely horrific and something they definitely need to teach in schools more, so we can understand exactly WHY Indigenous people’s rights are such an important topic in Canadian politics
The Legacy of the Bloody British Empire and its racist Commonwealth
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