Failure and success in Indigenous health

When we discuss the heartbreaking challenges facing Indigenous peoples, we also need to reflect on the resilience of Indigenous peoples because we have some serious and urgent work to do to ensure we don’t lose another Indigenous life to racism.

Marion Crowe is the CEO of the First Nations Health Managers Association, and a much-needed success story in Indigenous health care, writes Rose LeMay. Photograph courtesy of the First Nations Health Managers Association

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

October 5, 2020

OTTAWA—On Monday, Sept. 28, Joyce Echaquan from Atikamekw died in the Joliette Hospital while nurses taunted her with racism. Joyce was expecting to experience racism; that is why she took the video. Systemic racism across provincial ministries has already been documented in the Public Inquiry Co...

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