Definitions for "First Nations"
The peoples who inhabited North America prior to European colonization.
what Canadians call Native Americans, which is more appropriate since nobody is native to North and Sud América ( language=Canadian)
The Native Peoples of Canada. Since Mohawks, Cree, Ojibway and other peoples consider themselves nations, the national aboriginal federation changed its name to the Assembly of First Nations in the late 1980s or early 1990s.