Doreen Spence on Resisting the Sterilization of an Indigenous Girl

Take a listen to this four and a half minute clip of Cree elder Doreen Spence’s memories of working as a nurse at a hospital in northern Alberta in the 1950s and standing up to the hospital administration against the involuntary sterilization of a young indigenous girl.

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