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Across Canada, many First Nations have not signed treaties with the Canadian Crown. Many First Nations are in the process of negotiating a modern treaty, which would grant them treaty rights. [162] Some First Nation bands are also trying to resolve their historical grievances with the Canadian government.
The following is a partial list of First Nations peoples of Canada, organized by linguistic-cultural area. It only includes First Nations people, which by definition excludes Métis and Canadian Inuit groups. The areas used here are in accordance to those developed by the ethnologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used by the Canadian Museum of ...
More than half of First Nations people (55. 5%) lived in Western Canada as of 2021. Ontario had the highest number of First Nations people, with 251,030 (about 23.9%) of the total First Nations population. Approximately 11.1% of First Nations people lived in Quebec, with 7.6% in Atlantic Canada and 1.9% in the territories. [185]
It was unveiled in Ottawa on June 21, 2018 by John G. Geiger, the chief executive officer of Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Mélanie Joly, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Nellie Kusugak, Commissioner of Nunavut, and leaders representing First Nations, Inuit and the Métis Nation, as well as Indigenous artists. [9]
Shared between two First Nations Agency 1: Couchiching First Nation, Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, Naicatchewenin First Nation, Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation: Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, Saulteaux: Shared between four First Nations Agency 30
This is a list of First Nation reserves in Canada which have over 500 people, listed in order of population from data collected during the 2006 Census of Canada, unless otherwise cited from Aboriginal Affairs. [1]
First Nations is a group of Indigenous peoples of North America that is now Canada. There are three distinctive groups of Indigenous peoples recognised in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, sections 25 and 35. The three groups of Indigenous inhabitants in Canada are the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. Search all pages that start with. First ...
Lists of First Nations cover the First Nations of Canada, the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle. The lists include: The lists include: List of First Nations band governments , a list, by province or territory, of the various First Nations government bodies in Canada