Ironically, we know them as Indians only because Columbus when he sailed to America in 1492 thought he had reached the Indies of Asia so he, of course called the people he found here Indians. They called themselves in their own languages ‘the people’.
These people who fall generally into two main linguistic groups were Algonquin and the Iroquoi and were part of a larger group that spread across all the Americas from what is now northern Canada far down to the southern tips of present day Argentina and Chile.
The Canadian Indians tribes evolved immeasurably during prehistoric times. The earliest known occupation site in the country is the Bluefish Caves of the Yukon. When the Europeans arrived in the early 1500s the Native Indians were well established and not far behind the explorers in terms of technology. The Natives spread across Canada and had successfully developed a wide range of languages, laws and government. They had well-defined religious beliefs, trading processes, customs, skills, arts, crafts and survival techniques.
Unfortunately, the explorers and pioneers brought about an end to the Natives original way of life. Through disease, battles, land losses, near extinction of the buffalo and a long history of conflict and complication, European discovery is estimated to have reduced the Native Indian population by more than two thirds. The Inuit or Eskimos who arrived from Asia after the forbears of all other American Indians were the last group to give up traditional way of life.
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