The National Aboriginal Children Used as Test Subjects
The National Aboriginal Children Used as Test Subjects
Newly surfaced documents shine a light on experiments that were conducted on hundreds of aboriginal individuals, most of them young children, during and following World War II. Residential schools were the testing grounds for government scientists to observe the effects of several products on the malnurished bodies of aboriginal children without their consent or even their knowing.
- 2013
- 00:03:07
- 15-17
- Added on: 04/15/2014
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- Human experimentation in medicine -- Canada -- History [LCSH] Malnutrition -- Canada [LCSH] Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools [LCSH] Indigenous children -- Crimes against -- Canada [LCSH] Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- History [LCSH] Social sciences [LCSH] Indigenous peoples -- Study and teaching -- Canada [LCSH] Canada -- History [LCSH] Political science [LCSH] Social justice -- Study and teaching [LCSH]
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- Cameron MacIntosh (Journalist), Paul Hunter (Host)
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