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9 - A Smouldering Fire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2023

Liza Piper
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University of Alberta
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Tuberculosis was the most devastating infectious disease of the 20th century. Spread initially in the nineteenth-century fur trade, tuberculosis rose in intensity after 1900, with its greatest impacts in the 1920s and 1930s. This chapter shows the prevalence of tuberculosis infection, its interaction with other pathogens, and the impacts of tuberculosis on children and young adults especially, including how the residential school system amplified the epidemic in the North. More than any other disease, tuberculosis changed Indigenous relationships with the land. The colonial state belatedly responded to this epidemic, relocating the sick to institutions in southern Canada. This policy of medical relocations became emblematic of Northern health history and colonialism in the decades to come.

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When Disease Came to This Country
Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America
, pp. 257 - 292
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • A Smouldering Fire
  • Liza Piper, University of Alberta
  • Book: When Disease Came to This Country
  • Online publication: 20 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009320924.011
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  • A Smouldering Fire
  • Liza Piper, University of Alberta
  • Book: When Disease Came to This Country
  • Online publication: 20 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009320924.011
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  • A Smouldering Fire
  • Liza Piper, University of Alberta
  • Book: When Disease Came to This Country
  • Online publication: 20 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009320924.011
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