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First Nations in Ontario constitute many nations. Common First Nations ethnicities in the province include the Anishinaabe , Haudenosaunee , and the Cree . In southern portions of this province, there are reserves of the Mohawk , Cayuga , Onondaga , Oneida , Seneca and Tuscarora .
Gitxsan (Gitxsanimaax speaking) Nisga'a. Haida (Haad kil speaking) Southern Wakashan peoples. Nuu-chah-nulth (incorrectly called Nootka) Tla-o-qui-aht (Clayoquot) Mowachaht - Muchalaht. Ahousaht (formed from the merger of the Ahousaht and Kelsemeht bands in 1951) Ehattesaht.
Their traditional territory encompassed a broad area corresponding to what is now the Ontario region, extending from the Detroit River along Amherstburg all the way to Long Point Ontario and the Lake Erie Islands. The heart of their ancestral territory includes the Essex and Kent county areas, in particular, the Point Pelee Peninsula and Pelee ...
First Nations (French: Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. [2][3] Traditionally, First Nations in Canada were peoples who lived south of the tree line, and mainly south of the Arctic Circle. There are 634 recognized First Nations governments or bands across Canada. [4]
Onondaga Nation, Oneida Nation, Tuscarora Nation, Mohawk Nation, Cayuga Nation, other Iroquoian peoples. The Seneca (/ ˈsɛnɪkə / SEN-ik-ə; [2] Seneca: O-non-dowa-gah, lit. 'Great Hill People') [3] are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian -speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America.
Karonghyontye or Captain David Hill (1745–1790), Mohawk leader during the American Revolutionary War. E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (1861–1913), poet, author, and public speaker from the Six Nations Reserve of the Grand River. George Henry Martin Johnson (1816–1884), Mohawk chief and interpreter.
Algonquin territory circa 1800 in green. The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. [1] Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (including Oji-Cree), Mississaugas, and Nipissing ...
Native Americans in the United States, Greenlandic Inuit, Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Indigenous peoples in Canada also known as Aboriginals) [ 2 ] are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, [ 3 ] Inuit, [ 4 ] and Métis, [ 5 ] representing roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population.