Colonization, climate change, and indigenous health: from Algiers to Acre

I sat in a conference hall in Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil. My mind was in a sanatorium of Algiers, Algeria. This was where my mother was sent as a girl. They told her she got tuberculosis because she was an "indigène musulman". In 1938, the year of my mother's birth and after over a century of colonization, about 5 out of every 100 Algerian people got infected with tuberculosis each year.