The term "Aboriginal" is appropriate when referring to matters that affect First Nations (Indian) and Métis peoples The word is most appropriately used as an adjective (e g , Aboriginal person)
having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
The aboriginal people or animals of a place are ones that have been there from the earliest known times or that were there before people or animals from other countries arrived. = native, indigenous. an aborigine