Question

Before Europeans came to North America, Canada was inhabited by native Americans, known today as First Nations, Indians, Inuit or sometimes as Eskimos.

In the Americas, the word "Indians" does not mean people from India! It means "indigenous people", people who already live in a place, or were born there.

Contrary to popular imagination, Canada's First Nations were not all nomadic people, and in eastern Canada, many Indians lived in villages made of wooden huts. Like Europeans, they grew crops and cultivated small fields.

Different groups of Indians often fought for territory, for good agricultural land, for the rivers with most fish in them. However, there was plenty of room for everyone in such a vast country, and food was not a real problem; the forests were full of wild animals.

The First Nations living in the western half of Canada were more nomadic. The great prairies of Western Canada were home to tribes who lived in teepees; these nomads lived mainly from hunting.

Today, there are about 300,000 officially registered Indians in Canada, and about a million other Canadians who are partly of First Nation origin. Indian ceremonies and festivities are an important part of Canadian culture.

Across Canada, there are over 2,000 Indian reservations, many of them relatively poor. However some Indian reservations have rich natural resources. In Alberta, First Nation communities receive hundreds of millions of dollars each year in royalties for gas and oil extracted from the ground in or under their reservations.


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Answer 1

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alternativa d

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