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Canada passes the Gradual Civilization Act.
Date: 1857
Canada
Genocide
Laws/legislation/policy
The act is a strategy to assimilate Native people into Canadian settler ways by encouraging enfranchisement via citizenship and voter rights. Only one person voluntarily "enfranchises."
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