Health Sciences 1002A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Medicine Wheel, Indian Register, Infant Mortality
8 Feb 2018
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Chapter 7 canada"s aboriginal peoples and health: the perpetuation of inequalities. First nations: refers to all those people called indian Aboriginal peoples: refers to all the original peoples in north america and their descendants. M tis: refers to people of aboriginal and mixed european ancestry. Inuit: replaces the term eskimo and refers to aboriginal people who live primarily in arctic. Indigenous peoples: used interchangeably with the term aboriginal peoples. Each group has its own unique history, language, beliefs, and cultural practices. Recent census concluded that there was just under 1. 2 million canadians who identified belonging to one of the 3 aboriginal groups (about 4% of total canadian population) M tis account for 33% of total aboriginal population, inuit account for about 4% and north. Many first nations people today still like to be referred to by the specific nation and tribe they belong to ( i. e. cree, blackfoot etc)
