A government term for a group of status Native people living on a First Nation. There can be many bands on a First Nation. An opinion, preference or inclination formed without any reasonable justification. Refers to a wide variety of human qualities and often has a relationship with exclusion and inclusion power dynamics. Ethnicity is also a process, which is changed over time both by social conditions and individuals.
Ethnicity tends to be based on a common culture, language or nationhood.
The deliberate selection of vocabulary which avoids the inadvertant or implicit exclusion of particular groups. Exists when disadvantaged communities and designated group members share power and decision-making at all levels in projects, programs and institutions. Technically, people who have moved to a country with the intention of settling. Not synonymous with refugees. In Canada, racially visible people are often assumed to be immigrants.