Three groups of people constitute Indigenous Peoples in
Canada, also called First Peoples. Also called Aboriginal. Native
-old word, outdated vocab Indian
1. First Nations -people in the
south of Canada
2. Inuit Eskimo – people in the north of Canada
3. Métis – ‘mixed’ people who are First Nations and European ancestry
First Nations came into common usage
in the 1980s to replace the term ‘Indians’
·
Talk about origin of the word ‘Indian’ due to
geographical misunderstanding, West Indies
·
First Nations- Indigenous people in the South (below
Arctic Circle). Half of all First Nations bands are in Ontario and BC.
·
Inuit are the Indigenous people who live in the North.
Used to be called ‘Eskimo’- disparaging term from French Esquimaux, from
Montagnais ayas̆kimew ‘person who laces a snowshoe’. Montagnais, or Innu, are
the Indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which
comprises most of the northeastern portion of the present-day province of
Quebec and some eastern portions of Labrador.
Discredited etymology ‘raw fish eater’
Website: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/#nunangat
Show map: “Inuit Map”
Metis - French- do not pronounce the ‘s’ may-tee
-a person of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry
1600s and 1700s - Fur trading European men came to hunt
animals, like beavers
In
particular one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted
the so-called Metis nation in the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers.
Metis comes from the French word ‘métis’, which means ‘mixed’.
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