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First Peoples

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First Peoples
pl n
(Social Science / Peoples) Canadian a collective term for the Native Canadian peoples, the Inuit, and the Métis


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The professor, who has extensively studied numerous Aboriginal languages, said it is a "huge issue" that there is a lack of importance placed on the languages of Canada's First Peoples.
Then he discusses such stages as the first peoples by the sea, the European encounter, the development of a fishing society 1610-1775, a colonial state 1824-55, the twilight of national policy 1897-1908, the land of milk and honey 1946-72, and the limits of neo-nationalism.
s mythologies be it Chippewa , Navaho , Hopi , or any of a greater number of unstudied mythologies of the first peoples of North America in one form or another a flood story or epic moral tale takes shape and is told and retold.
 
 
 
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