On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. PublishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescription What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages McCallum and Perry argue that “health care is not only, and sometimes not even primarily about biomedicine-it is also about assimilation and integration into the Canadian nation state and the annulment of treaty rights and responsibilities, as well as erasure of Indigenous autonomy, identity and ways of life.” A key success is that the authors never lose sight of Sinclair’s complex humanity as a man and family member, and as an urban Indigenous community member within an institution, city, province, and country that too often dehumanizes and ignores Indigenous peoples.” The book situates a global and pervasive history of dispossession and marginalization within a local and specific story of one Indigenous life. The historian-authors use inquest documents as their primary archive to analyze how legal processes narrowly define and interpret events to effectively obscure the violence of contemporary settler colonialism. A subsequent inquest wrestled with whether to examine systemic racism against Indigenous peoples as a contributing factor in Brian Sinclair’s death, or to focus solely on operational or procedural failures.
“In a Canadian hospital in 2008, an Indigenous man was left untreated and unattended for 34 hours and died of an easily treatable infection.
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