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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the First Peoples of Canada and the Maoris of New Zealand. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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no commonalities. This paper compares two vibrant cultures: the Aboriginal peoples of Canada and the Maoris of New Zealand. Discussion The Aboriginal peoples obviously were the first to live in
Canada; their spiritual and cultural traditions have been passed down through the generations and are still revered today (A look at Canada, 2006). Aboriginal peoples live in every province of
Canada today (A look at Canada, 2006). Because they depended on nature for survival, the Aboriginal peoples developed a close relationship with it (A look at Canada, 2006). The people
who lived on the coast were hunters and fishermen; those who lived in eastern and central Canada were hunters and farmers, growing vegetable crops (A look at Canada, 2006). The
"Constitution Act of 1982 recognizes three main groups of Aboriginal peoples in Canada: the First Nations, the Inuit and the M?tis. Today, there are more than 50 different languages spoken
by Aboriginal peoples, most of which are spoken only in Canada" (A look at Canada, 2006). Today, Aboriginal peoples are about 3% of the total population, but their population is
growing almost twice as fast as the non-Aboriginal population (A look at Canada, 2006). Today, among the Aboriginal peoples, approximately "69 percent are First Nations, 26 percent are M?tis and
five percent are Inuit" (A look at Canada, 2006). "First Nations" is a term that has been used since the 1970s; its preferred to the term "Indian" and it applies
to all Aboriginal people who are "not Inuit or M?tis. Different First Nations communities have different languages, cultures and traditions, depending largely on where they are located" (A look at
Canada, 2006). In the east, First Nations people "invented bark canoes to travel on rivers and lakes. Some First Nations people lived on the plains, and moved with the buffalo
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