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The following is an alphabetical list of topics related
to Canadian Aboriginals,
comprising the First
Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
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![]() The North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance or the Saskatchewan Rebellion) of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the survival of their people. Despite some early victories at Duck Lake, Fish Creek and Cut Knife, the rebellion resulted in the destruction of numerous Métis and allied First Nations forces. |
![]() The proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982, signed by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. Section thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides constitutional protection to the aboriginal and treaty rights of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. |
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| First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada, who are neither Inuit nor Métis. |
![]() The French and Indian War, also known as the War of the Conquest (French: Guerre de la Conquête) or referred as part of the larger conflict known as the Seven Years' War, was a war fought in North America between 1754 and 1763. The name French and Indian War refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various Indigenous peoples forces allied with them. |
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![]() In human genetics Haplogroup Q1a3a is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup (Y-DNA). Haplogroup Q1a3a is a subclade of haplogroup Q. Dr. Peter Underhill and his colleagues at Stanford University first discovered the indigenous American clade or (SNP). Studies completed the genetic bridge by determining that it was related to populations found predominately in Central Asia. |
![]() The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest Coast, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those historical peoples. They are now situated within the Canadian Province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon. |
![]() ![]() Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and the United States. |
![]() Founder of the province of Manitoba and a leader of the Métis during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 and North-West Rebellion of 1885. |
![]() Shanawdithit , also referred to as "Shawnadithit" and "Nancy April", was the last recorded surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland, Canada. She died of tuberculosis on 6 June 1829 in St. John's at the age of 28. |
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![]() ![]() The Métis are a people descended from marriages between Europeans and First Nations and Inuit. Their history dates to the mid-17th century. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of centuries, many Notable Aboriginal people of Canada have played a critical role in shaping the history of Canada. From art and music, to law and government, to sports and war; Aboriginal customs and culture have had a strong influences on defining Canadian culture. |
![]() The Numbered Treaties are a series of eleven treaties signed between the aboriginal peoples in Canada and the reigning Monarch of Canada (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921. Treaty 9 was an agreement established in July, 1905, between King Edward VII and various First Nations in northern Ontario. |
![]() Paleo-Indians or Paleoamericans are believed the first peoples to enter and inhabit the American continent during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period. The few agreements achieved to date are their origin from Asia, with migration and widespread habitation of the Americas during the end of the Last glacial period, or more specifically what is known as the Late Glacial Maximum, around 16,000-13,000 years before present. |
![]() The Red River Rebellion or Red River Resistance are names given to the events surrounding the actions of a the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan established by Métis leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba. |
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![]() The status of the First Nations, aboriginal people of British Columbia (BC), Canada, is a long-standing problem that has become a major issue in recent years. In 1763 the British Crown declared that only it could acquire land from First Nations through treaties. Historically only two treaties were signed with the First Nations of BC. The first of which was the Douglas Treaties of 1850-1854 with the second being Treaty 8, signed in 1899. |
![]() The relationship between The Canadian Crown and Aboriginal peoples of Canada stretches back to the first interactions between European colonialists and North American indigenous peoples. Over centuries of interaction, treaties were established concerning the monarch and aboriginal tribes. Canada's First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples have come to generally view these agreements as being not between they and the ever-changing Cabinet, but instead with the continuous Crown of Canada, as embodied in the reigning sovereign. |
![]() Sakawarton (John Smoke Johnson), John Tutela, and Young Warner, three Six Nations veterans of the War of 1812. The war was fought between the United States and the British Empire, particularly Great Britain and her North American colonies of Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Québec), New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island (at that time a separate colony from Nova Scotia), and Bermuda. |
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