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The Indian Department was established in 1755 to oversee relations between the British Empire and the First Nations of North America. The imperial government ceded control of the Indian Department to the Province of Canada in 1860, thus setting the stage for the development of the present-day Department of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.
British Indians are people of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots are from India.Currently, the British Indian population exceeds 1.9 million people in the UK, making them the single largest visible ethnic minority population in the country.
The land-claim's settlement was the first formal treaty signed by a First Nation in British Columbia since the Douglas Treaties in 1854 (Vancouver Island) and Treaty 8 in 1899 (northeastern British Columbia). The land owned collectively is under internal pressures from the Nisga'a people to turn it over into a system of individual ownership.
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Scottish Romani are the Romani people of Scotland. This includes Romanichal (locally also known as Border Gypsies) and Lowland Romani (Lowland Gypsies). [1]Scottish Travellers are non-Romani groups indigenous to Scotland who live or traditionally lived a nomadic lifestyle, including Scottish Highland Travellers, Scottish Lowland Travellers and Showmen (Funfair Travellers).
The Tsimshian people of British Columbia encompass fifteen tribes: Gitasts'uu, Gidisdzu or Kitasoo (″(People of) a large, tiered house-depression″, together with the Xai'xais, a Heiltsuk group from Kynoch Inlet they are part of the Kitasoo/Xaixais First Nation at Klemtu (Klemdulxk / Xłmduulxk), 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 , and also various Interior Salish and Athapaskan peoples, and also the Ktunaxa .
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