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This type is intended to work with the existing Canadian Indian Reserve type in the Location domain.Currently the properties on this type are:Canadian Indian reserve(s) -- what Canadian Indian Reserves, if any, these people live onIf a group is... more

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Cree		Ethnicity		Cree is an exonym applied to various peoples indigenous to North America, namely the Nehiyaw, Nehithaw, Nehilaw, Nehinaw, Ininiw, Ililiw, Iynu, and Iyyu. These peoples can be divided into two major groups, those that identify themselves using a...
Inuit		Ethnicity		Inuit (plural: the singular, Inuk, means "man" or "person") is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada. Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable...
Algonquin		Ethnicity		The Algonquins (or Algonkins) are an aboriginal North America people speaking Algonquin, an Anishinaabe language. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, with whom they form the larger Anicinàpe grouping. The...
Tlingit		Ethnicity		The Tlingit ( in English, also or , which is often considered inaccurate) are an Indigenous people of northwestern America. Their name for themselves is Lingít , meaning "people". The Russian name Koloshi (from an Aleut term for the labret) or the...
Dene		Ethnicity		The Dene (Dené) are an aboriginal group of First Nations that live primarily in the Arctic regions of Canada. Dene is a compound of two words: De means "flow" and Ne meaning "Mother Earth". Dene homeland is referred to as Denendeh, meaning "the...
Okanagan people		Ethnicity		The Okanagan people, also spelled Okanogan, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the U.S.-Canada boundary in Washington state and British Columbia. Known in their own language as the Syilx, they are part...
Blackfoot		Ethnicity		The Blackfoot Confederacy or Niitsítapi (meaning "original people"; c.f. Ojibwe: Anishinaabe and Quinnipiac: Eansketambawg) is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. The Blackfoot...
Blackfoot		Treaty signatory
Anishinaabe		Ethnicity		Anishinaabe or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek (which is the plural form of the word) is a self-description often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonkin peoples, who all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe language. Not...
Mississaugas		Ethnicity		The Mississaugas are a subtribe of the Anishinaabe First Nations people located in Southern Ontario, Canada, closely related to the Ojibwa. The name "Mississauga" comes from the Anishinaabe word Misi-zaagiing, meaning "[Those at the] Great River...
Iroquois		Ethnicity		The Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the "League of Peace and Power", the "Five Nations"; the "Six Nations"; or the "People of the Longhouse") is a group of First Nations/Native Americans that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk, the...
Iroquois		American Indian group
Nakoda		Ethnicity		The Nakoda (also known as Stoney) are a First Nation group, indigenous to both Canada and the United States. They inhabit large parts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana. They are descendants of the Dakota and Lakota nations of...
Assiniboine		Ethnicity		The Assiniboine, also known by the Ojibwe name Asiniibwaan "Stone Sioux", and the Cree as Asinîpwât are a Native American/First Nations people originally from the Northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada, centered in present-day...
Métis people		Ethnicity		The Métis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee aboriginals to French Canadian, Scots and English, and are one of three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada, along with the First Nations (Indians) and Inuit ...
Yupik		Ethnicity		The Yupik or, in the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik, are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They include the Central Alaskan Yup'ik people of the Yukon...
Slavey		Ethnicity		The Slavey (also Slave) are a First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta. This name was...