LibGuides: Indigenous Health: For Brian Sinclair

Brian Sinclair 1963-2008

Books

Bibliography of resources on this subject guide compiled by Janice Linton, with thanks to the many people who provide suggestions for new resources to be added

Paper Copy NJM Indigenous Health WC 11 L977m 2001

Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s by Maureen K. Lux

Paper Copy NJM Indigenous Health WX 11 DC2 L977 2016

First Peoples, Second Class Treatment:The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada by Billie Allan & Janet Smylie
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
NJM Indigenous Health E78.O5 T35 2017
Come Walk with Me by Beatrice Mosionier
In 1983, the book In Search of April Raintree was published to great acclaim, heralding the voice of an important new writer, Beatrice Mosionier (then Culleton). With honesty and clarity, Mosionier explored the story of two Métis sisters as they struggle with loss, identity, and racism. Yet readers have long asked: how much of April's story comes from the author's own life? Come Walk With Me, Beatrice's answer to that question, is a moving memoir that follows a bewildered three-year-old through a dramatic journey to adulthood. Recounting a life that, at times, parallels that of her most memorable fictional character, and at others, diverges from it, Mosionier searches to make sense of her losses--her sundered family, her innocence, and her dignity--only to triumph as a woman and writer, fulfilled artistically, politically, and personally.

Related Works

Black and Blue by John Hoberman

Inequitable Health Services

Report

Out of Sight by the Brian Sinclair Working Group
A summary of the events leading up to Brian Sinclair's death and the inquest that examined it and the Interim Recommendations of the Brian Sinclair Working Group

Images of paintings of Brian Sinclair by Gordon Hagman courtesy of the artist

Out of Sight

Inquest

Ignored to Death
Includes all transcripts, the final report, and the response to the report by family and counsel
Inquest report released December 12, 2014 in the matter of Brian Lloyd Sinclair, Deceased
Official report released into the death of Mr. Brian Sinclair in the Emergency Department, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba

More Racism, More Deaths, More inquests, More Inquiries -- We Need Change NOW!!

Government of British Columbia. (2020). In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care

Investigation Report Concerning the Death of Joyce Echaquan

Report in English

The Clinical Encounter

Decolonizing Education

Racism and Other Determinants of Health

Racism, Sexism, and Colonialism: The Impact on the Health of Aboriginal Women in Canada

Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada by Martin John Cannon; Lina Sunseri

Subject Guide: Indigenous Health
See the Books section for good overviews on the social determinants of health (SDOH) impacting on Indigenous peoples' health through the lifecourse.
Subject Guide: Racism as a SDOH
Problematising the discourses of the dominant: whiteness and reconciliation
The Politics of Belonging and Intercultural Health Care
Refiguring "race": Epidemiology, racialized biology, and biological expressions of race relations
The ostrich, the albatross, and public health: An ecosocial perspective--or why an explicit focus on health consequences of discrimination and deprivation is vital for good science and public health practice
Care for the ‘Racially Careless’: Indian Hospitals in the Canadian West, 1920–1950s
First Nations poverty and the Canadian economy
Aboriginal homelessness in Canada: A literature review

Severing the Ties That Bind: Government repression of Indigenous religious ceremonies on the Prairies by Katherine Pettipas

Paper Copy NJM Indigenous Health E99 C88 P511s 1994

Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, and Health Equity

Moving Indigenous Health Forward: Discarding Canada’s Legal Barriers by Yvonne Boyer

Paper Copy NJM Indigenous Health KE 7722 H4 B69 2014

New Manitoba Reports

Two reports released by the Soutthern Chiefs' Organization (2021)

Additional resources on racism compiled by SCO

Take Action! -- Attention Nurses

Please see Commitment to Positive Change: Structural Anti-Racism Audit of Nursing Education Programs in the journal, Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, Vol. 3(1).

Authors Andrea Kennedy, Lisa Bourque Bearskin, and Kaija Freborg have written a letter to the editor and ask "Nursing colleagues to sign this letter to demonstrate shared commitment to critically examine racist challenges and anti-racist opportunities in their Nursing program at a structural level."

New

Events

Systemic Racism: Brian Sinclair's Story

Presentation available for viewing:

Dr. Mary Jane McCallum, The Brian Sinclair Working Group: Making Anti-Indigenous Racism in Health Visible

Dr. Sherene Razack, Proving Racism in Inquests and Inquiries into the Deaths of Indigenous People in Custody

Books

Dying from improvement by Sherene Razack

Paper copy at NJM and Dafoe Libraries E 78.B9 R39 2015

Also on the shelves at NJMHSL and Dafoe libraries

Empathy, Dignity and Respect: Creating Cultural Safety for Aboriginal People in Urban Health Care by Health Council of Canada

Welcome!

Janice Linton

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Indigenous Health Liaison Librarian
Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library,
University of Manitoba, Bannatyne Campus
727 McDermot Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3P5
NJM Library is located next to Health Sciences Centre (HSC)

Subjects: Family Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Indigenous Health