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1969 White Paper

The Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy, 1969, is a white paper (policy paper) proposing the abolition of the Indian Act. Though it purported to improve the economic and cultural standing of Aboriginal peoples by integrating them into society, it was fiercely opposed as a policy of "extermination through assimilation," or cultural genocide.

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