First Nations is used as a noun-adjunct as in First Nations education, instead of Indian in phrases such as Indian education. This is a highly selective legal definition, subject to historical events, political decisions, bureaucratic processes, and legislative amendments. The term Indian now applies to the inhabitants of India, the East Indies, the West Indies, and to the Aboriginal inhabitants and their descendants in North and South America. A political term similar and related to the political autonomy of a nation. Independence is the stage or ability of a nation to exercise their sovereignty free from the control and interference by another nation.
Indigenous peoples are peoples who are born in and naturally inhabit a region.
For this reason, the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has created a special branch to deal with Inuit affairs. It is the inherent right to exercise its authority, develop its policies and laws, and control financial and other resources for its citizens. Certain areas of jurisdiction include justice, citizenship and naturalization, taxation, economic development, land, health, housing, education, policing, corrections, culture, religion, language, collective rights, resources, agriculture, census and statistics, public borrowing and debt, property and civil rights, and any other matter of interest under Indian self-government. The only limits of jurisdiction are the international treaties. They were allotted money scrip or land.