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The Indian Pass system: illegal confinement of ‘rebel Indians’

23m documentary by APTN.

The Pass System illuminates Canada’s unofficial but strictly enforced policy to confine First Nations people to reserves unless they had a pass to leave, issued by Indian Affairs. Anyone caught off reserve without one would be jailed.

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