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Re:Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields by lolinder on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:54PM (#31888894)
This use of "a First Nation" is meant to refer to the group of people, not an individual. I believe it's equivalent to saying in the US "a Native American tribe".

EDIT: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada

> Some indigenous peoples in Canada have also adopted the term First Nation to replace the word "band" in the formal name of their community.

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Re:Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields by OJFord on Sunday June 26, 2022 @07:20PM (#31889048)
Then why 'a'? It still seems wrong to me, like (but opposite) 'woman police officer', it should surely be 'a First Nation people' or something?

To use your example, it sounds to me like 'a Native'. 'Native what?' I'm left wondering as a reader.

Perhaps I'm wrong, I'm not Canadian, nor 'a First Nation', it just doesn't scan to me.

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Re:Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields by derefr on Sunday June 26, 2022 @07:57PM (#31889226)
"Nation" is already a collective noun. Canada is a nation. These people, as a group, are also a nation.
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Re:Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields by stormbrew on Sunday June 26, 2022 @07:31PM (#31889104)
It parses a little ambiguous or odd to me but not wrong. It's the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation, one of many First Nations in Canada. The analogous word you might be reaching for would probably be tribe or band, and neither "a tribe" or "a band" read weird to me at all.

Within the Canadian legal framework, the treaties between Canada and its indigenous population are at least theoretically between distinct "nations".

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Re:Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields by Rastonbury on Sunday June 26, 2022 @11:09PM (#31890199)
A First Nation, a Nation, a Territory (which is in the sentence)
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