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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 ...
List of First Nations band governments, a list, by province or territory, of the various First Nations government bodies in Canada; List of First Nations peoples, a list, by geographical area, of the various First Nations tribes in Canada; List of First Nations people, an alphabetical list of people who are members of the First Nations in Canada
Indigenous Canadian names [ edit ] Many, if not most, Indigenous Canadians (primarily in this First Nations and Métis people, but also Inuit to an extent) carry European surnames, and most of those are French names, either because of intermarriage with French Canadian and Métis men and indigenous women or because a surname was assigned to an ...
Fictional Indigenous Canadian people (2 C) C. Canadian Inuit people (9 C, 2 P) Canadian Métis people (7 C, 134 P) F. Indigenous families of Canada (5 C, 1 P)
Lists of indigenous Canadian people (7 P) Pages in category "Indigenous peoples in Canada-related lists" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Canadian Aboriginal law is the area of law related to the Canadian government's relationship with the Indigenous peoples. Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 gives the federal parliament exclusive power to legislate in matters related to Aboriginals, which includes groups governed by the Indian Act , different Numbered Treaties and ...
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The parallel term Native Canadian is not commonly used, but Native (in English) and Autochtone (in Canadian French; from the Greek auto, own, and chthon, land) are. Under the Royal Proclamation of 1763, [22] also known as the "Indian Magna Carta," [23] the Crown referred to Indigenous peoples in British territory as tribes or nations.