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By Sean Darcy
This essay features excerpts from Sean Darcy's article entitled "The Evolution of the Department of Indian Affairs' Central Registry Record-Keeping Systems: 1872-1984," published in the Fall 2004 edition of Archivaria, no. 58, p. 161-171. Read the abstract of this article in Archivaria (http://journals.sfu.ca/
archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12482) (accessed August 12, 2010).