Book ID: CBB373446176

Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City (2018)

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Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Author)
Adele Perry (Author)


University of Manitoba Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 192
Language: English

Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. In September 2008, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabe resident of Winnipeg, arrived in the emergency room of a major downtown hospital. Over a thirty-four- hour period, he was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the city of Winnipeg through Sinclair’s experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death.

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Authors & Contributors
Lux, Maureen K.
Duarte, Marisa Elena
Hay, Travis
Calandra McCool
Belarde-Lewis, Miranda
Rockey, Robbins
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Colonialism
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Science and race
Environmental history
Medicine and race
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Canada
United States
Europe
Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
Alberta, Canada
Hudson Bay (North America)
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