CanadaandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
1 SHARED EVENTIndia

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CAN LEFT · IND RIGHT

1. 1876

   The Indian Act

   The Indian Act consolidated federal control over the lives, lands, and governance of First Nations peoples, becoming a central instrument of assimilation and dispossession that remains in force in amended form.

   Politics & Power · from the Canada chronicle · Confederation and nation-building across the continent · REFS 2 — First Nations and Indigenous peoples in Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports