List of First Nations peoples

List of First Nations peoples

The following is a list of First Nations peoples organized by Indigenous geographic area. This list does not include Metis or Canadian Inuit groups. The areas used here are in accordance to those used by the Canadian Museum of Civilization [cite web
url = http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/ethno/etb0000e.html
title = Canadian Museum of Civilization: Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage
accessdate = 2006-07-27
] and developed by the enthologist and linguist Edward Sapir.

British Columbia Coast

These people traditionally ate fish, primarily salmon and silvery eulachon from the ocean, as well as fish from lakes and rivers, and roots and berries. Recently discovered clam gardens suggest that they were not limited only to hunting and gathering.'They made use of the forests of the Pacific to build dug-out canoes, and houses made of evenly-split planks of wood. They used tools made of stone and wood. The native peoples of the Pacific coast also made 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 transfer of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a. Major ethnicities include the:
*Coast Salish
**Cowichan
***Somena
**Musqueam
**Nanaimo
**Nuxálk ("Bella Coola")
**Shishalh (Sechelt)
**Sliammon (Mainland Comox)
**Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo)
**Songhees ("Songish")
**Squamish
**Musqueam
**Tsleil-waututh (Burrard)
** (Fraser River Salish)
***
***Katzie
***Kwantlen
***Sts'Ailes (Chehalis)
***Kway-quit-lam (Coquitlam)
**Tsawwassen
**T'Souke (Sooke)
*Tsimshianic peoples (Northern Mainland)
**Tsimshian
**Gitksan
**Nisga'a
*Haida
*Southern Wakashan peoples
**Nuu-chah-nulth ("Nootka")
***Tla-o-qui-aht ("Clayoquot")
***Hesquiat
***Mowachaht-Muchalaht
**Ditidaht
**Pacheedaht
*Northern Wakashan peoples (Central Coast)
**Kwakwaka'wakw
***Laich-kwil-tach (Euclataws/Yuculta aka Southern Kwakiutl)
****Weewaikai (Cape Mudge)
****Wewaykum (Campbell River)
**(Koskimo
**Haisla
**Heiltsuk
**Wuikinuxv (Owekeeno)

British Columbia Interior

*Athapaskan
**Dakelh (Carrier)
**Dene-thah (Slavey)
**Tsilhoqot'in (Chilcotin)
**Wet'suwet'en
**Sekani
**Dunne-Za (Beaver)
**Tlingit
**Nicola Athapaskans (extinct)
*Interior Salish
**Nlaka'pamux First Nation (Thompson Nation)
**Okanagan
**Secwepemc (Shuswap)
**Sinixt (Lakes)
**St'at'imc people (Lillooet) people
*Ktunaxa ("Kootenay")
*Tahltan

Plains

These people traditionally used tipis covered with skins as their homes. Their main sustenance was the bison, which they used as food, as well as for all their garments. The leaders of some Plains tribes wore large headdresses made of feathers, something which is wrongfully attributed by some to all First Nations peoples. Major ethnicies include the:
*Anishinaabe
**Plains-Ojibwa
*Blackfoot
**Kainai ("Blood")
**North Peigan
**Siksika
*Dene
**Chipewyan
*Nakoda
**Assiniboine
**Stoney
*Plains-Cree
*Tasttine ("Beaver")
*Tsuu T'ina ("Sarcee")

Plateau

* Ktunaxa (Kootenay)
* Okanagan
* Colville
* Sinixt
* Yakama
* Palus
* Cayuse
* Coeur d'Alene
* Wasco
* Wishram
* St'at'imc (Lillooet)
* Nicola
* Nlaka'pamux (Thompson)
* Secwepemc (Shuswap)

Western subarctic

These peoples live in the boreal forest in what are now Canada's western provinces and territories. They were originally hunter-gatherers dependent on caribou, moose and the fur trade. Most spoke Athapaskan languages except the Crees and Inland Tlingit. Major ethnicities in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and the northern parts of the western provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) include the following:
*Cree
*Dene
**Chipewyan
**Sahtu (includes Bearlake, Hare and Mountain peoples)
**Slavey
**Tli Cho
**Yellowknives
*Dunneza (also Dunne-za, Beaver, Tasttine)
*Gwich'in (Kutchin, Loucheaux)
*Hän
*Kaska
*Tagish
*Tahltan
*Inland Tlingit
*Southern and Northern Tutchone

Woodlands and eastern subarctic

Major ethnicies include the:
*Anishinaabe
**Algonquin
**Nipissing
**Ojibwa
***Mississaugas
***Saulteaux
**Oji-cree
**Ottawa ("Odawa")
**Potawatomi
*Cree
*Innu ("Montagnais" and "Naskapi")

Atlantic coastal region

*Beothuk (Newfoundland "extinct")
*Innu (Labrador)
*Maliseet
*Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
*Passamaquoddy

t. Lawrence River Valley

The largest First Nations group near the St. Lawrence waterway are the Iroquois. This area also includes the Wyandot (formerly referred to as the Huron) peoples of central Ontario, and the League of Five Nations who had lived in the United States, south of Lake Ontario. Major ethnicities include the:
*Anishinaabe
**Algonquin
**Nipissing
*Haudenosaunee ("Iroquois")
**Cayuga ("Guyohkohnyo")
**Mohawk {"Kanien'kéhaka")
**Oneida ("Onayotekaono")
**Onondaga ("Onundagaono")
**Seneca ("Onondowahgah")
**Tuscarora ("Ska-Ruh-Reh")
*Munsee branch of the Lenape (Delawares)
*Neutral
*Tobacco
*Wyandot ("Huron")

ee also

* List of First Nations governments
* Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
* Indigenous languages of the Americas

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