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The Siksika (Blackfoot) in southern Alberta, along with other western Canadian Aboriginals in the post-Treaty (1870s) period, bore the brunt of the destruction of the bison economy and the nascent state%26apos;s colonial policies intended to marginalise them to encourage white settlement. Canada%26apos;s policy to assimilate Aboriginal people through missionary-run residential schools extended to financial support in 1896 for the reserve%26apos;s rudimentary Queen Victoria Jubilee Hospital where Anglican missionaries treated schoolchildren made ill by overcrowded dormitories and poor food. In 1924 the Siksika built and maintained their own 16-bed Blackfoot Hospital, but its subsequent demise at the hands of the government in the post-World War II period in favour of detention in bureaucrat-controlled institutions marked the outlines of the emerging welfare state. Aboriginal people%26apos;s segregation and isolation in Indian Hospitals defined and protected the %26apos;national health%26apos; of universal access to bright, modern hospitals for white Canadians.
- 出版日期2012-8
