Book Review: Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City

• Published in: International Indigenous Policy Journal
• Main Author: Stelkia, Krista
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western (Western University) 2020
• Subjects: structural racism; Indigenous health; settler colonialism; Canadian health care system; McCallum; Sinclair; First Nations
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071429ar; https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2020.11.3.10800

The case of Brian Sinclair, a First Nations man who died in a Winnipeg, Manitoba, hospital emergency room in 2008 after waiting 34 hours for medical care to treat a preventable infection, represents the degree to which structural indifference exists within Canadian society. This article reviews the...