Structural Racism and Indigenous Health: What Indigenous Perspectives of Residential School and Boarding School Tell Us? A Case Study of Canada and Finland

• Published in: International Indigenous Policy Journal
• Main Authors: Juutilainen, Sandra A, Miller, Ruby, Heikkilä, Lydia, Rautio, Arja
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2014
• Subjects: residential school; boarding school; Haudenosaunee; Sámi; identity; health inequalities; Community Health; Other Public Health; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Canada; Inari
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol5/iss3/3; https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2014.5.3.3

The objective of this study was to explore, as an example of structural racism, the effects of residential school and boarding school on the self-perceived health of Indigenous peoples’ in Canada and Finland. Structured interviews were conducted at Six Nations of the Grand River and Inari municipali...