WARNING: This article contains a video that may be disturbing to some viewers.
As she lay dying in a Joliette, Que., hospital bed, an Atikamekw woman clicked her phone on and broadcast a Facebook Live video appearing to show her being insulted and sworn at by hospital staff.
Joyce Echaquan's death on Monday prompted an immediate outcry from her home community of Manawan, about 250 kilometres north of Montreal, and has spurred unusually quick and decisive action on the part of the provincial government.
The mother of seven's death will be the subject of a coroner's inquiry and an administrative probe, the Quebec government said today.
Mary Hannaburg, vice-president of Quebec Native Women, said the video is a "very hard thing to hear and to listen to."
"The statements that are made are not going to be tolerated. Those are of a racist nature," she said. "We will not tolerate racism in any given form toward Indigenous women."
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