Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Eastern Arctic, 1950–1965 Secwépemc conscious survival

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Nobody Here Will Harm You: Mass Medical Evacuation from the Eastern Arctic, 1950–1965 Secwépemc conscious survivalPerhaps you are wondering why you are brought down from your home leaving your friends and perhaps family behind. The reason is that you are sick, and if you were left at home, you may endanger those at home. So you are here to get well again But do not be afraid. Nobody here will harm you. Mountain Views, Hamilton Sanatorium, 1955With this quote Shawn Selway begins his thorough investigation of the evacuation of 1,274 Inuit and Cree sufferers of