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  2. Indigenization - Wikipedia

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    Indigenization is seen by some as less of a process of naturalization and more of a process of culturally relevant social work. Indigenization was not the standard, but it was a way to accustom others to a surrounding point of view but also to help understand where the people came from and their heritage. [7]

  3. Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Notwithstanding Canada's location within the Americas, the term Native American is hardly ever used in Canada, in order to avoid any confusion due to the ambiguous meaning of the word "American". Therefore, the term is typically used only in reference to the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of the present-day United States . [ 33 ]

  4. Indigenism - Wikipedia

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    New Zealand scholar Jeffrey Sissons has criticized what he calls "eco-indigenism" on the part of international forums such as the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, which he claims enforces a link between indigenous peoples and traditional economies, and also confuses the issues faced by New World indigenous, who are mostly urban dwellers and live in states dominated by people descendant ...

  5. Ethnic origins of people in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Irish population, meanwhile, witnessed steady, slowing population growth during the late 19th and early 20th century, with the proportion of the total Canadian population dropping from 24.3 percent in 1871 to 12.6 percent in 1921 and falling from the second-largest ethnic group in Canada from to fourth − principally due to massive ...

  6. Canadian identity - Wikipedia

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    The maple leaf is the symbol most associated with Canadian identity. Canadian identity refers to the unique culture, characteristics and condition of being Canadian, as well as the many symbols and expressions that set Canada and Canadians apart from other peoples and cultures of the world.

  7. Canadian literature - Wikipedia

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    Canada Council Molson Prize for distinguished contributions to Canada's cultural and intellectual heritage; Danuta Gleed Literary Award for a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English; Dayne Ogilvie Prize for an emerging writer in the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender communities

  8. Canadians - Wikipedia

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    Canada has one of the highest per-capita immigration rates in the world Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants.

  9. Canadian Aboriginal syllabics - Wikipedia

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    Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families. These languages had no formal writing system previously.