CA-K400Indigenous peoples & reconciliation
Edgar Dewdney and Indigenous policy on the Prairies
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As Indian Commissioner (1879–1888) and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, Edgar Dewdney withheld rations from starving First Nations until they settled on government-selected reserves, causing malnutrition, disease and death. After 1885 he helped impose the extralegal pass system and helped shape the residential school system, with devastating consequences for Indigenous children, families and communities.
Scope & context
Dewdney’s role as recognized in the 2023 reviewed designation, not the residential school system as a whole (see CA-K029).
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