Who Were The Native Canadians?

Native Canadians are also known as Indians, Native Americans, aboriginal Americans, indigenous Canadians and Amerindians. They numbered 600,000 to 2,000,000 in number as per conservative estimates.

They included the tribes of Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Salish, Hurons, Inuit, Mohawk, Ojibwa, and Mississauga etc.

The traditions held by the Aboriginal and native traditions states that their ancestors inhabited Canada from ages ago. Archeological finds substantiate these claims to a greater extent. Human presence can be traced back in some places to more than 25,000 years ago.

There are now only 1.2 million native Indians in Canada and they constitute only 4.3 percent of Canada's population. They speak 50 different languages even today.

The book titled 'The Last of The Mohicans' by J. Fennimore Cooper and a film based on the same, depict pretty accurately how things existed between the whites and natives.

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