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Aboriginal peoples in Canada are indigenous peoples recognized in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982 as the Indians (First Nations), Métis, and Inuit. The term "First Peoples" has also been used synonymously. As of the 2001 Canadian Census there are over 900,000 Aboriginal peoples in Canada. This includes approximately 600,000 people of First Nations descent, 290,000 Métis, and 45,000 Inuit. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
// Overview The Constitution Act, 1982 is Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982. ...
First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, Amer-Indians, or Aboriginals, and are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which...
The Métis (pronounced MAY tee, IPA: , in French: or ) are one of three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada. ...
Inuit woman Inuit (Inuktitut syllabics: áƒá“„áƒá‘¦, singular Inuk or Inuq / áƒá“„á’ƒ) is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. ...
The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. ...
National representative bodies of Aboriginal peoples in Canada include the Assembly of First Nations for the First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami for the Inuit, and the Métis National Council for the Métis. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is a body of aboriginal leaders in Canada. ...
The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami or Inuit Tapirisat of Canada is an organization in Canada that represents over 40,000 Inuit. ...
The Métis National Council is the national representative of the Métis people in Canada. ...
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was an important commission undertaken by the Government of Canada in the 1990s. It assessed past government policies towards Aboriginal peoples, such as residential schools, and provided many policy recommendations to the government. System of government Canada is a constitutional monarchy as a Commonwealth Realm (see Monarchy in Canada) with a federal system of parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions. ...
// Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...
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Complete lists of First Nations, Métis settlements, and Inuit communities have been broken down by Canadian province or region:
Aboriginal peoples in Alberta consist of two ethnic groups, the First Nations and the Métis. ...
Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia can be designated into two groups, First Nations and Métis. ...
Aboriginal peoples in Manitoba consist of several dozen First Nations and many tens of thousands of Métis peoples located in Manitoba, Canada. ...
Aboriginal peoples in Saskatchewan consist of the First Nations and Métis located in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ...
Aboriginal peoples in Quebec total 11 distinct nations. ...
Capitalization Policies regarding the capitalization of "Aboriginal" differ from organization to organization. The Government of Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs advises that the term should always be capitalized [1]. However, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Official Dictionary of the Canadian Press (ISBN 0195418166), instructs that the term should not be capitalized when used as an adjective. System of government Canada is a constitutional monarchy as a Commonwealth Realm (see Monarchy in Canada) with a federal system of parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions. ...
The Canadian Press is a Canadian news agency established in 1917 as a vehicle to distribute Associated Press material to Canadian news media, mainly because it was very difficult to spread news across such a huge country, covering many time zones. ...
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Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, or APTN, is a Canadian television network which airs and produces programming targeted to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities. ...
Canadian aboriginal syllabic writing (often syllabics for short) is a family of writing schemes which are used to write a number of aboriginal Canadian languages from the Algonquian, Athabaskan and Inuit language families. ...
This list of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin contains Canadian places whose names originate from the words of the First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, collectively referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada. ...
The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF) is a Canadian non-profit organization whose core focus is to provide scholarships for Aboriginal students. ...
National Aboriginal Day is a Canadian day of recognition of the diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. ...
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System of government Canada is a constitutional monarchy as a Commonwealth Realm (see Monarchy in Canada) with a federal system of parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions. ...
The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, also referred to as Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for policies governing First Nations and Canadas three northern territories. ...
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