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British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...
First Nations in British Columbia constitute many First Nations governments and peoples in the province of British Columbia. Many of these Indigenous Canadians are affiliated in tribal councils. Ethnic groups include the Haida, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka'wakw, Gitxsan, Tsimshian, Nisga'a and other examples of the Pacific Northwest Coast cultures ...
The term Northwest Coast or North West Coast is used in anthropology to refer to the groups of Indigenous people residing along the coast of what is now called British Columbia, Washington State, parts of Alaska, Oregon, and Northern California. The term Pacific Northwest is largely used in the American context.
The Oxford history of the British Empire: The nineteenth century. Vol. 3 (1999) online pp 470–494. Proctor, Jesse Harris (1962). "British West Indian Society and Government in Transition 1920–1960". Social and Economic Studies. 11 (4): 273– 304. JSTOR 27853695. Ramphal, Shridath S. (1953). "Federal Constitution-Making in the British West ...
Related ethnic groups Other Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast , other Salish peoples The Coast Salish peoples are a group of ethnically and linguistically-related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast , living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon .
Located on the northern coast of South America, Guyana is part of the main land Caribbean which is part of the historical British West Indies. It is culturally similar to Suriname and nearby island nations of the Caribbean such as Trinidad and Tobago , and is a culturally Caribbean country even though it is not an island nation located in the ...
The Sinixt are descended from Indigenous peoples who have lived primarily in what are today known as the West Kootenay region of British Columbia in Canada and the adjacent regions of Eastern Washington in the United States for at least 10,000 years. [5]
The majority of Indigenous groups and legal scholars define Métis as the people who originate from the historic homeland of the Métis Nation, [28] which encompasses the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta and extends into contiguous parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the northern United ...