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Aboriginal women say they were sterilized against their will in hospital

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allthecanadianpolitics:

“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will

Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.

And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.

At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.

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Ok but this is true!!! I was 19 years old when i went into the hospital to give birth to my first child and while i was laying in bed reading and signing consent forms i came across one that woukd give them.permission to tie my tubes. The nurse kept telling me i didnt have to read them all that they were all about my stay in the hospital and intake forms and when i began to read that particular form the nurse came to me laughed nervously and said well we put that in there just in case you wanted to get your rubes tied. I then asked if they always gave them to woman giving birth she said no, the doctor had asked for thematic be put in there “just in case” I didnt want any future children. The nurse then went on to ask me about my future and if i was really sure i wanted to have more children or not. Until my mom came intimate room to check up on me and the nurse then took all the papers from me and left. For the rest of my delivery the nurses refused to give me medication for the pain or an epidural saying it was too early for that and it might stop my labour. I honestly think they withheld pain medication and the epidural to show me how hard child birth can be. Afterwards when they were releasing me the nurse asked me again if i was sure i didnt want to get ny tubes tied. Which i said no to. She then went on and explained thaf if i did i woukd just have to make an appointment with my doctor and i would be in and out in no time at all.
That is my experience with the Canadian healthcare system and being a native woman. It is wrong that anyone would try and force something like that on a 19 year old. Please share. Let it be known what is happening to native woman. We have rights just like any other woman and shouldn’t be pushed into suxh decision at such a young age.

Hey white folks with uteruses who do not want or should not have kids, 

you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life? 

Guess what else they do? Double your outrage.

This is so common there’s even a book just about Saskatchewan on the topic: An Act of Genocide, by Karen Stote. And this isn’t just a contemporary thing, Canada had a lengthy eugenics legal history, particularly in Western Canada, which targeted Indigenous people, Jews, Ukrainians, and developmentally disabled people. Learn more at http://eugenicsarchive.ca/ including how institutions of eugenic sterilization collaborated with Indian Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals, and how these institutions all sexually and emotionally and physically abused their patients as well as non-consentually sterilizing them. 

Aboriginal women say they were sterilized against their will in hospital

This University of Alberta Indigenous history course is the most popular course in Canada

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allthecanadianpolitics:

allthecanadianpolitics:

A course created one year ago by the University of Alberta was the most popular online course in Canada in 2017, and is already making inroads into how Canadians understand the history of Indigenous people.

With almost 20,000 people enrolled, the free online 12-module course called Indigenous Canada teaches those from an Indigenous perspective.

“A lot of Indigenous experiences in Canada have been silenced by a normative settler vision of Canada and the history of it,” said Paul Gareau, assistant professor with the U of A’s Native Studies program and the academic lead for the course.

“This course focuses on telling an Indigenous experience of Canada.”

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“The course is available for free through Coursera here.”

I’ve done this course and it is fantastic. I learnt so much about the various Indigenous cultures across Canada along with history and was given a much better understanding of what Indigenous people face. 

It only takes an hour or so per course and you can do them at your own pace. 

This University of Alberta Indigenous history course is the most popular course in Canada

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trapperweasel:

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

In Finland on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.

PERRrrRrrRrKELE

((Two kinds of people))

Is that fucking hetalia

ask-finny:

official-sachsen-anhalt:

trapperweasel:

ethanredotter:

trapperweasel:

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away. 

In Finland on the other hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA

Lmao Finland Man ain’t taking shit from bears.

PERRrrRrrRrKELE

((Two kinds of people))

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narputo:

Oh my god…

friendly reminder that native americans actually suffer more police brutality & police murders than any other ethnicity

friendly reminder that we got our right to vote after black ppl did

friendly reminder that up until the 19-fucking-90’s our women would have their tubes forcibly tied by doctors after they gave birth, as a way to get rid of us

Friendly reminder that most of our sacred sites have been polluted by mining, illegal dumping, or radiation. AND EVEN MORE OF THEM HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM US

friendly reminder that there is less than one percent of us left here.

Friendly reminder that even up here in Canada, there are mass amounts of First Nations women vanishing. Racism against natives is still alive and well. Residential schools were in operation until 1996. 

This is not just an American problem. 

If you can’t deal with an 8 year old and you’re a cop, please stop being a cop.

Abolish the police.

brownnesscrew:

brownnesscrew:

Hi everyone,

Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou from Montreal has been missing since March 12, 2018. He went to visit his friend that lived a few blocks away from him, but his friend was not home. Ariel never came back home.

Ariel is was last seen wearing a black coat with a hood, grey pants and yellow shoes. He is about four-foot-seven and 88 pounds.

An amber alert was triggered on Tuesday but was lifted 24 hours after as the criteria to maintain it was no longer being met. As of today (March 16, 2018) Ariel still hasn’t been found. 

The police and many volunteers have been canvassing the streets to find him but they have had no luck. There’s also a surveillance video of Ariel walking by and turning around twice. His family believes he was kidnapped. 

Canadian/Quebec followers, if you have any information, please contact Info-Crime Montreal at 514-393-1133 or call 911. Anything helps.

In the meantime, a GoFundMe has been set up to help his family as they concentrate their efforts on the search of their son. Please donate if you can, or simply share within your network.

On a personal, we are based in Canada and this story is all we can think about.  We pray that Ariel is found. 

Still not found. Please keep sharing. (March 19, 2018) 

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phoenixonwheels:

Just for once I’d like to tell the gate agents and flight attendants that my folding wheelchair is going into the onboard closet and not have them tell me there’s “no room”. Bitch that’s a wheelchair closet, not a “your bags” closet. Move your damn bags where they belong.

Ok, so according to my friendly aviation expert, this is a Big Fucking Deal. In fact, if an airline argues with you about putting your wheelchair in the wheelchair closet or even suggests there may not be room, unless there is already another passenger’s wheelchair in that closet, they have violated federal law.

CFR Title 14, Chapter II, Subchapter D, Part 382, Subpart E, Section 382.67, Subsection (e)

“As a carrier, you must never request or suggest that a passenger not stow his or her wheelchair in the cabin to accommodate other passengers (e.g., informing a passenger that stowing his or her wheelchair in the cabin will require other passengers to be removed from the flight), or for any other non-safety related reason (e.g., that it is easier for the carrier if the wheelchair is stowed in the cargo compartment).”

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This is hugely important because it means that if this happens to you, you should report their asses to the DOT. Why? Because these statistics are published every year for every airline, and the airline gets a huge ass fine for every violation. If we want to see change, we need to make airlines literally pay every time they treat us this way.

Since I believe this is post mainly applies to Americans, here’s an addition for Canadian air travellers.

Code of Practice: Aircraft Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities (Air Code)

Scope: Aircraft with 30 or more passenger seats operated by Canadian carriers.

“The Air Code sets out that if the configuration of an aircraft with 100 or more passenger seats permits it, the aircraft should have on board storage space to accommodate a manually operated folding or collapsible wheelchair. If not, the passenger should have prompt access to their wheelchair upon arrival at destination and the carrier should make every reasonable effort to provide it at connecting stops where all passengers are permitted to deplane.”

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Canada is, unfortunately, far more lax RE disability laws. Perhaps because Canada has no federal accessibility act like the USA… However, if any Canadian airline damages or loses your mobility device, they are required to repair, replace, or refund your mobility device.

Like OP says, if airline staff harangue you over your mobility device, or violate codes they should be following, report them.

Here’s the Canadian law for all my Canadian peeps! The original law is indeed US law and applies to all flights wholly within the US plus all flights originating or terminating within the US (so a flight from Toronto to Detroit would have to comply with the US laws). I believe it also applies to all flights on any US airline even if that flight is totally outside the US (e.g., a Delta Airlines flight from Tokyo to Singapore), but you’ll want to check that before you fly.

Please note that under US law, if an airline damages your wheelchair they have to repair it or else pay you the original purchase price. You’ll need to report the damage before you leave the airport. Don’t sign anything without reading it carefully – airlines have been known to try to get passengers to sign away their rights to this money.