Family members are calling for changes and safeguards after an elderly Indigenous man’s braids were cut off and thrown away during a hospital stay in Edmonton. Day school survivor Dexter Adams ...

Crowe said her uncle was a day school survivor and that because it wasn't culturally safe to have long hair while in school, he decided to grow his hair out when he became older.

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after an Indigenous man’s braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital.

Family members are calling for change after the braids of an elderly Indigenous man from Pasqua First Nation in southeast Saskatchewan were cut off and thrown away during a hospital stay in Edmonton.

Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after a Pasqua First Nation man's braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital.

Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after an Indigenous man’s braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital. Eve Adams ...

The family members of an Indigenous man whose braids were cut off and thrown away while he was staying in an Edmonton hospital are still seeking answers more than six months later. A sign for a ...

The family members of an Indigenous man whose braids were cut off and thrown away while he was staying in an Edmonton hospital are still seeking answers more than six months later. A sign for a ...