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First Peoples (First People)
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
Spelling variants:first peoples, first people
n. — plural, Ethnicities, also found in the singular First people
the Aboriginal peoples of Canada, which include the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
Type: 5. Frequency — This term is Canadian by virtue of frequency. As shown in Chart 1, First Peoples is over twice as common in Canadian English as in the national variety with the second-highest counts, New Zealand English.
See also Gage-1, s.v. "First Peoples", which is described as "in Canada", ITP Nelson, s.v. "First Peoples", which is described as "in Canada", COD-2, which does not label the term.
See also Gage-1, s.v. "First Peoples", which is described as "in Canada", ITP Nelson, s.v. "First Peoples", which is described as "in Canada", COD-2, which does not label the term.
Quotations
1880
Long ago the Indians (first people, or ancient people - thlin-thloo-hait) had no tobacco, and one plant only existed, growing somewhere far inland in the interior of the Stickeen country.
1950
However, the search for a common ancestor of the first peoples of America, and Alberta's first citizens, goes on.
1979
Westerners emphasized that they are not the colonies of central Canada any longer; Maritimers that they are not 'spongers' seeking handouts from the rest of Canada; Quebeckers that they are not 'second class' citizens, but a 'nation' with its own culture and institutions; native peoples that they are not 'inferior' but the first peoples in North America and the 'true' founders [...]
1981
Within easy walking distance for visitors
staying the five-and-a-half hours until the return
sailing is the provincial Museum, considered the
best of its kind in Canada with its outstanding
"First Peoples of B.C." exhibit and large scale,
walk-in "Old Town" and "Natural History"
galleries.
1997
Without the knowledge, participation, and agreement of the first peoples, these immigrants from your country created the province of Quebec and were partners with the English in creating the nation of Canada.
2007
The first people of the Yukon and Canada will once again rise up to take their rightful place on this land, Grand Chief Andy Carvill of the Council of Yukon First Nations told the gathering.
2015
Manitoba has Canada's highest child-apprehension rate. About 88 per cent of the 10,000-plus children in care are aboriginal; most are First Nations.
There are many reasons why we have got to this point. Historically, European-centric policies over Canada's first people were guided by racist, colonial laws that sought, impossibly, the dual purpose of separation and assimilation. Some would say the goal, in fact, was eradication, that what did not happen through isolation, economic ruin and the cultural war that followed settlement, and then in the residential schools, is happening now by state seizure of children, many at birth.
References
- Gage-5
- ITP Nelson
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