Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Eastern Arctic, 1950–1965 Secwépemc Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization

Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience

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and foster children provides ample reminder that children's welfare cannot be separated from that of their parents and communities

history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America

Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Eastern Arctic, 1950–1965 Secwépemc Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonizationPerhaps you are wondering why you are brought down from your home leaving your friends and perhaps family behind. The reason is that you are sick, and if you were left at home, you may endanger those at home. So you are here to get well again But do not be afraid. Nobody here will harm you. Mountain Views, Hamilton Sanatorium, 1955With this quote Shawn Selway begins his thorough investigation of the evacuation of 1,274 Inuit and Cree sufferers of