"A Scandalous Procession": Residential Schooling and the Re/formation of Aboriginal Bodies, 1900-1950
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary-Ellen Kelm
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 51-88
Description
Uses example of schools in British Columbia to illustrate that while children's health education was used as a method of assimilation, children were undernourished and conditions were unsanitary encouraging the spread of disease.