Dr. Maureen Lux, Brock University with Dr. Amy Montour: “Race, Medicine and Healthcare: Indian Hospitals in 20th Century Canada”

Talk Description: As Canada embarked on national healthcare programs such as Medicare it also maintained a system of racially segregated hospitals for Indigenous people. Poorly funded and badly managed, ‘Indian hospitals’ isolated Indigenous people from modern care. This history exposes some of the twentieth-century roots of racism in healthcare.

Biographies:

Dr. Maureen Lux: Dr. Lux is Professor of History at Brock University. Her award-winning publications explore the impact of colonization on the health of Indigenous peoples and the role of medicine and the state in maintaining health disparities. Her latest book with co-author Erika Dyck is Challenging Choices: Canada’s Population Control in the 1970s (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

Dr. Amy Montour: Dr. Montour is a Haudenosaunee woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She has completed Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Medicine degrees at McMaster University. Amy works clinically as a palliative care physician and as an advocate for Indigenous health. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Site Director for the Grand Erie Six Nations Family Medicine Residency Site, McMaster University.

Inquiries regarding this talk can be directed to cusicks@mcmaster.ca or amstere@mcmaster.ca.