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"ON JANUARY 22, 1979,
an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay. B.C. hospital. The
events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the
Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes, and public
records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospitaL the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and federal ministries of health, and national
media, because their private tragedy held implications that reached far beyond one child, one
physician, one town, and even one century. As the political and historical overlays of [the death] are peeled back, we realize that the events of 1979 are not an exception to, but a reflection of, underlying attitudes towards Indians . . . We are given in An Error in Judgement, an opportunity to understand racism from the inside out." - Professor Michael Jackson from the Foreword to An Error in Judgement |
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