The Native American Way of Committing a Genocide

The goal was to gradually reduce the number of people who legally counted as native to zero. The federal government of Canada was sort of responsible for dealing with indigenous people. They passed a gradual enfranchisement act in 1869, which mandated that enfranchised natives had to adopt English names. It determined how many people could be underneath the chief and all this stuff. And it was just like taking these societies that were seen as inherently disordered and uncivilized and turning them into something that British legal codes could understand.