The Government of Canada enacts racist legislation, the Indian Act, 1876, aimed at controlling and assimilating the Indigenous population. One of the strategies of the Indian Act, 1876 was to “enfranchise” any First Nations person that obtained post-secondary education, forcing a choice between maintaining basic human rights, or Indigenous rights. While it has undergone many revisions, the Indian Act is still in place today and has not been updated since 1985. Read the Indian Act, 1876 and Indian Act, 1985.