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Module 4.1. An interactive map of Canada’s native peoples

The Interactive map of Canada found on http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/customcode/Media.cfm?Params=A3native-people.swf provides data on Canada’s different Native groups in a very informative yet succinct presentation. The map designates Canada’s parts not according to administrative provinces and territories, as one would initially expect, but according to natural regions and First Nations’ habitats. Each region is first described geographically and environmentally, before proceeding on to state facts relating to its indigenous people – a more organic, indigenous-people-centered approach to study, which implies the indigenous peoples’ elemental and profound relation to the land they have inhabited for centuries, and in many cases millennia.