Starving, experimental depravation!
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Lest We forget: The Starving of Indigenous Children in Canada as a Government Experiment during the 1940s…
As a 10-year-old boy, Alvin Dixon remembers having to milk cows during his stay at a residential school in Port Alberni, B.C. Yet, he was always fed only powdered milk.
Dixon, who is now 76 years old, was forcibly taken from his family in Bella Bella, on British Columbia’s northwest coast, when he was a child and relocated to Port Alberni, B.C., where he said he and many of his classmates were starved.
“We would be so hungry and we would steal these potatoes [from farmers’ fields] and eat it raw,” he told CBC News.
Recently published research suggests Dixon’s experiences were part of a long-standing, government-run experiment designed by researchers to test the effects of malnutrition.
The research by food historian Ian Mosby has revealed the experiments involved at least … Continue reading