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Chapter
The Indian Act and the Indian Residential Schools
Learn the history behind the legislation and policies created by the Canadian government in the nineteenth century to dispossess and assimilate the Indigenous Peoples.
Subject
- Social Studies
Grade
6–12Published
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Overview
About This Chapter
In the previous chapters, we learned about the ideas that Europeans falsely employed to categorize the Indigenous Peoples of North America. This chapter examines how these views were put into action after Confederation in 1867.
Inside this Chapter
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