Text from government representative outrages southern Alberta First Nation
STANDOFF, Alta. — Alberta Health Services is apologizing and has placed an employee on administrative leave after officials at a southern Alberta First Nation complained about a racial slur being used in a text message.
The incident occurred last week during an AHS seminar for educators working on the Kainai First Nation, also known as the Blood Tribe.
Annette Bruisedhead, deputy superintendent of the Kainai Board of Education, said one of the seminar participants received a text from an AHS official complaining that she’d been yelled at by someone during the meeting.
Asked who had been yelling at her, the AHS official replied “a rabid squaw,” and named a KBE employee, Bruisedhead told a news conference Thursday.