When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for the harmful consequences of the government\u2019s forced removal of Inuit to southern institutions for medical treatment in the 1950s and 60s, most Canadians had little understanding of the history, says Maureen Lux.<\/p>\n
The Brock University History Professor is hoping her current research will help to change that, and she is offering two Master of Arts (MA) fellowships in 2023-2024 to join her on the \u2018Inuit Health and Qallunaat Medicine 1940s -1980s’ project.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project will use the analytical tools of gender, race and colonialism to examine the impacts of shifting state policies on health in Inuit Nunangat (traditional lands of the Inuit) from the 1940s to 1980s,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Qallunaat (western medicine) was central to the ideological and technological processes of colonial control.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsing archival sources, published Inuit memoirs, biographies, literature, oral history collections and commissions of inquiry, we will critically analyze the history of Inuit health care and Qallunaat medicine in the larger context of the 20th century\u2019s welfare state and the use of medical authority to inform social policy,\u201d says Lux.<\/p>\n
The two fellowships are for $10,000 each and are funded through a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant. Preference will be given to students with a background in the history of health and Indigenous-settler relations. The deadline for applications to the MA History program<\/a>\u00a0is Wednesday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n Lux researches the history of Indigenous-government relations and the social history of medicine. In 2016, she published<\/a> Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920-1980, <\/em>which was recognized<\/a> by the Canadian Historical Society as the Best Book in the Aboriginal History category in 2017. She recently co-authored Challenging Choices: Canada\u2019s Population Control in the 1970s<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized for the harmful consequences of the government\u2019s forced removal of Inuit to southern institutions for medical treatment in the 1950s and 60s, most Canadians had little understanding of the history, says Maureen Lux,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":39730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,188,55,37,6833,1,5],"tags":[506,607,12195,3330,30,4220,3325,2196,11588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82071,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050\/revisions\/82071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}