AFN mulls emergency resolution on nutritional experiments

Canada’s largest aboriginal group is debating an emergency resolution based on a report that the federal government once conducted nutritional experiments on hungry native children and adults.

The Assembly of First Nations is holding its annual meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon, and is to vote today on the resolution.

It calls on the Harper government to apologize for the experiments done between 1942 and 1952 on 1,300 people.

Federal researchers used malnourished and hungry aboriginals on reserves and in residential schools to study the effects of nutritional supplements.

The subjects were provided or denied vitamins, minerals and some foods instead of being properly fed.

The resolution also demands the government release all records pertaining to any tests on aboriginal people.