Foreclosing Accountability: The Limited Scope of the Seven Youth Inquest in Thunder Bay, Ontario

• Main Author: Hay, Travis Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Review of Social Policy / Revue canadienne de politique sociale 2019
• Subjects: Provincial inquests; settler colonialism; federal Indian policy; First Nations education; Indigenous studies; treaty history; Thunder Bay; Social Policy; Indigenous Issues; Indian; First Nations; Premières Nations
• Online Access: https://crsp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/crsp/article/view/40328

Between 2000 and 2011 seven students from First Nation communities across northern Ontario lost their lives while attending high school in Thunder Bay. These losses of Indigenous life became the subject of a joint provincial inquest that concluded in the summer of 2016. In this article the author of...