Métis and Inuit

Inuits

Métis

There are two groups of aboriginal people in Canada it is the Métis and Inuit or the eskimos, today they call themselves The First Nations. These three groups have different language, history, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs. The first people to come to Canada was around 30 - 15 thousand b.c but the Vikings came 1000 a.c. The British explorer James Cook strikes again in history as he explored the west coast and the year 1896 there was gold there. 

France and Britain had a long colonial rivalry about who would get Canada, The First Nations groups were very important to France and Britain to secure strong alliances with them so their military control in North America would be stronger. Canada became a colony of Great Britain after New France transfered to Britain. So the First Nations were forced by the white man to be in their military and they sure did not like it after the War of 1812. The Indian Act of 1876 was a consolidation of regulations that affected the indigenous people who lived all over Canada. The white man focused most on to civilize First Nations. The policies and amendments to the Indian Act became very controlling of First Nations lives. There are 11 aboriginal language groups in Canada now but there were at least 53 different aboriginal languages, the official language today is English and French. According to research from 2006 more then one million people in Canada can identify themselves as an aboriginal person.

Aboriginal people are everywhere all over the world, they did not harm anyone. Let us learn by history to be nice to one another and not judge by the look.