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Today still, the Indian Act indicates how reserves and bands can operate and defines who is recognized as an "Indian." [149] There have been many updates to this law since then, allowing Canadian citizenship and voting rights among others. [citation needed] In 1985, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-31, An Act to Amend the Indian Act ...
The native peoples of the Pacific coast also make totem poles, a trait attributed to other tribes as well. In 2000 a land claim was settled between the Nisga'a people of British Columbia and the provincial government, resulting in the return of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a.
The Atlas consists of a four-volume book set, an interactive website, five floor maps, downloadable tile maps, plastic-coated maps, poster maps, teaching guides for elementary and secondary school students, and lesson plans for teachers. [1] [5] One floor map is the size of a school gymnasium, [6] about 11 by 8 metres (36 ft × 26 ft). [7]
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.
There are only three actual Indian reserves in the Northwest Territories, Hay River Dene 1, Salt River 195 and Salt Plains 195. All other places are Indian settlements . The Smith's Landing First Nation is, according to INAC, headquartered in the NWT but are listed as an Alberta First Nations .
This map shows the Seven Nations on the eve of the Seven Years' War. Native and French communities formed a patchwork along the St. Lawrence River. The French communities were a single political entity. The Native American communities each had its own government, connected with the French by geography and by formal and informal agreements. [5]
The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development is officially responsible only for Status Indians and largely with those living on Indian reserves. The new position was created in order provide a liaison between the federal government and Métis and non-status Aboriginal peoples, urban Aboriginals, and their representatives.
The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Mi'kmaw or Mi'gmaw; English: / ˈ m ɪ ɡ m ɑː / MIG-mah; Miꞌkmaq:, and formerly Micmac) [4] [5] [6] are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, [7] and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native ...