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The records on our site emerge from the cultural and physical genocide that the Canadian government and churches conducted through the Indian Residential School System, including the ongoing impacts.

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An act for the gradual enfranchisement of Indians
1869 Gradual Enfranchisement Act

Gradual Enfranchisement Act

1869
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 The Gradual Enfranchisement Act provided the government with more control over who they could declare an "Indian." As with the Gradual Civilization Act, this Act aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Euro-Canadian society and extinguish Indigenous rights. It included provisions for removing the “Indian status” of Indigenous women who married men without status. This portion of the Act would not be repealed until 1985.

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