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Originally Posted by peter12
Either way, it doesn't really matter. The term, immigration, only makes sense when there are established political boundaries. I tend to think that terming indigenous people under a single umbrella as original peoples is fair, but kind of stretches any real notion of shared identity or settlement.
Safe to say, that they exist as an enormously heterogenous population of people that were indispensable to the creation of Canada.
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There were also those 11 or so treaties signed by Canada which treated various tribes as distinct sovereign entities. Thats a huge issue that is not against but adds to the good point you make here. The SCC is holding Canada to those treaties, although they seem to be hurting each party to them in the long term.