FNMI

Adjective

First Nations (not comparable)

1. (Canada) Of or pertaining to the indigenous peoples of Canada (typically not including the Inuit or Metis); Indian.
   • Generally speaking, the works of First Nations artists were made with materials such as wood, leather or cloth.2001, Benoit Prieur [et al.], “Portrait”, in Canada 2000–2001 (Ulysses Travel Guides), 3rd edition, Montreal, Que.: Ulysses Travel Guides, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 37, column 2
2. (broadly, uncommon) Of or pertaining to the indigenous peoples of any country or region.
3. (Australia, broadly, uncommon) Of or pertaining to the indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) peoples of Australia; Indigenous Australian.
   • Among the 1692 Australian species and subspecies on the BirdLife Australia Working List V3 (excluding vagrant and introduced taxa[…]), 18.7% derive from unrelated entities (e.g. shrike-tit that is neither shrike nor tit). Just 82 reflect First Nations names for birds (1.6%) or places (3.3%).2022, Stephen T. Garnett, Golo Maurer, Georgia E. Garrard, “Why Australian Common Bird Names should Respond to Societal Change”, in Emu: Austral Ornithology, volume 122, number 2, [Melbourne, Vic.]...