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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = First Nations<br />''Premières Nations''
| image            = [[File:Flag of Haida.svg|upright|90x100px|border]][[File:Musqueam flag.svg|upright|90x100px|border]]<br/>
[[File:Ouje Bougounou Cree.jpg|upright|90x100px|border]][[File:Flag of Eel Ground First Nation.svg|upright|90x70px|border]]<br/>
[[File:InnuNation.svg|upright|90x100px|border]][[File:Temagama Ojibwa.png|upright|90x100px|border]]<br/>
[[File:Kawawachikamach Band of the Naskapi Nation.jpg|upright|90x100px|border]][[File:Bandera Red Earth Cree.PNG|upright|90x100px|border]]<br/>
 [[File:Bandera Sechelt.png|upright|90x100px|border]]<br/>
[[File:Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg|upright|90x100px|border]][[File:Mikmaq State Flag.svg|upright|90x100px|border]]
| caption          = [[commons:Flags of Aboriginal peoples of Canada|First Nations flags]]
| population       = 977,230<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/171025/dq171025a-eng.htm |title=Aboriginal peoples in Canada: Key results from the 2016 Census |website=The Daily |publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] |date=2017-10-25}}</ref> (Canada census 2016)
| languages        = [[Languages of Canada#Aboriginal languages|Aboriginal languages]]<br/>[[Canadian English]]<br/>[[Canadian French]]
| religions        = [[Christianity in Canada|Christianity]]<br/>[[Native American religion|Traditional beliefs]]
| related          = [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], [[Alaska Natives]], [[Métis in Canada|Métis]]
}}
'''First Nations''' ({{lang-fr|Premières Nations}}) are the people of [[Native American|native tribes]] who have lived in the lands that are now part of [[Canada]] before [[Europe]]ans came there.

Many use the term because the people lived there long before Canada and to make it clearer that the they have many [[culture]]s, which are sometimes very different from others. Some consider the tem as respect to those who first cultivated certain patches of land.

The aboriginal people from Canada's [[Arctic]] are thought of as a different group of people and are called the [[Inuit]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/terminology/|title=Terminology|website=Indigenous Foundations|department=First Nations & Indigenous Studies|publisher=[[University of British Columbia]]|accessdate=19 June 2020}}</ref>

The First Nations are important in the world because their stories have taught much about cultural values and how to live in harmony with the land.

Other words that have been used for First Nations people, tribes, and cultures have been "indigenous", "aboriginals", "Indians", "Native Indians", "Amerinds," or "Natives." Most people now consider "Indian" to be people from [[India]].

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