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2006 Aboriginal Population Profile

9. Registered or Treaty Indian

The expression 'Registered Indian' refers to those persons who reported they were registered under the Indian Act of Canada. Treaty Indians are persons who are registered under the Indian Act and can prove descent from a band that signed a treaty. The Registered Indian counts in this table may differ from administrative counts maintained by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, with the most important causes of these differences being the incompletely enumerated Indian reserves and Indian settlements as well as methodological and conceptual differences between the two sources.