Aboriginal people used as unwitting guinea pigs: two stories
Imagine finding out that you had been the subject of an experiment run by the government. An experiment in deprivation -- when you were just a child. Ron Evans, chief of the Norway House Cree Nation, believes he may have been part of federal government experiments on aboriginal people in the 'Forties and 'Fifties. As we heard from researcher Ian...
Imagine finding out that you had been the subject of an experiment run by the government. An experiment in deprivation -- when you were just a child.
Ron Evans, chief of the Norway House Cree Nation, believes he may have been part of federal government experiments on aboriginal people in the 'Forties and 'Fifties. As we heard from researcher Ian Mosby on Tuesday night's program, the experiments included denying necessary nourishment to starving children to see how they fared. Others were denied dental care as a way to study the relationship between nutrition and tooth decay.
And Alvin Dixon suspects he was also one of those experimental subjects. He attended school in Port Alberni, British Columbia in the nineteen-forties. We reached Mr. Dixon in Vancouver. And a warning, this interview contains strong language.
Ron Evans, chief of the Norway House Cree Nation, believes he may have been part of federal government experiments on aboriginal people in the 'Forties and 'Fifties. As we heard from researcher Ian Mosby on Tuesday night's program, the experiments included denying necessary nourishment to starving children to see how they fared. Others were denied dental care as a way to study the relationship between nutrition and tooth decay.
And Alvin Dixon suspects he was also one of those experimental subjects. He attended school in Port Alberni, British Columbia in the nineteen-forties. We reached Mr. Dixon in Vancouver. And a warning, this interview contains strong language.