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Government Order Mandating forced haircuts of Indigenous people (1902)

Black and White official copy of Letter send by William Atkinson Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs to superintendents of all federal reservations, dated January 1902. Commonly referred to as the ‘Haircut order’. Within the letter Jones refers…

Tags: 20th century, Assimilation, British Columbia, Ceremony, Discrimination, European, Government Mandate, Haircut order, Haircuts, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Letter, Marginalization, William Atkinson Jones

Declaration of Indian Rights: The BC Indian Position Paper (1970)

This Document was produced by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and published on 17th November 1970, in direct response to the 1969 White Paper. The White Paper was a controversial policy paper submitted by the serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre…

Tags: 20th century, Assimilation, British Columbia, Brown Paper, Canadian Policy paper, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Government, Government Papers, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Policy, Political relations, Reconciliation efforts, Relations, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, White Paper Union

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