Pass system (Canadian history)
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title:
Pass system (Canadian history)
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The pass system was a segregationist policy by the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs (DIA), first initiated on a significant scale in the region that became the three prairie provinces in the wake of the 1885 North-West Rebellion—as part of a series of highly restrictive measures—to confine Indigenous people to Indian reserves—newly-established through the Numbered Treaties. The "Indian pass system"—introduced as a temporary emergency measure to quell First Nations resistance—was formalized
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Former segregationist policy of the Canadian government
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_system_(Canadian_history)
date created:
2016-01-11T19:11:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T10:06:36Z
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