Administering Colonial Science: FULL PDF In their official reports, the researchers drew explicit connections between the hunger and malnutrition they had witnessed and the broader health problems facing these northern Cree communities which, they noted, included a tuberculosis [End Page 146] death rate of 1,400 per 100,000 (compared to 27.1 for the non-Aboriginal population of Manitoba), an infant mortality rate eight times that of the rest of Canada, and a crude mortality rate almost five times that of Manitoba as a whole.3 At the same time, the research team also sought to situate the findings within a broader popular understanding of Canada’s so-called “Indian Problem.”4 In a preliminary report on their study in March 1942, they concluded: westcoastnativenews/administering-colonial-science-full-pdf/
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