SOC 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hard Clam, Medicine Wheel, Whelk
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Assimilatory canadian federal legislation, first passed in. 1876, and subsequently amended, which details certain federal government obligations and regulates the management of reserve lands, money and other resources previously negotiated with canada"s first peoples. Indigenous: term used to describe a variety of aboriginal groups and, n very broad terms, refers to any group of people who are known to have initially settled in an area. Aboriginal peoples: the original peoples of north. America and their descendants, consisting of three groups of people first nations, inuit, and metis. First nations: a term used to refer to those aboriginal people who are of neither inuit of metis descent; first. Nations refers to ethnicity, while a band may be a grouping of individuals within that ethnicity (e. g. Inuit: the aboriginal people who line in the far north or. Metis: people with mixed aboriginal and european ancestry.