American Indians/First Nations peoples comprise a variety of social, linguistic, and musical groups, from the Choctaw living in the great swamp lands of the southeastern United States to the Inuit of the newest north Canadian territory, Nunavut; from the powerful six-nation Iroquois confederacy located in western New York and southern Ontario to the scattered villages of the Eskimo (as the Inuit are called in the United States) of Alaska. First Nations peoples in Canada also include the Métis,...
