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Following Chief Deskaheh’s petitioning of the Leauge of Nations for entrance as a member state, the RCMP implemented a military occupation of the Grand River Territory from 1924 through the late 1950s, with strict curfew laws and a slew of draconian restrictions. Deskaheh’s appeal was motivated by decades of genocidal policies propagated against Six Nations under the legal architecture of the Indian Act of 1878.
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