Canada's relationship with Mexico

"Canadian indigenous people were largely hunter-gatherers."

This isn't quite accurate.
Many of Canada's Indigenous nations practiced farming and gardening for many thousands of years before Europeans showed up.
It has been well documented that the people of the Iroquois Confederacy of a large area of Eastern Canada and the USA, were accomplished horticulturalists. They relied on the Three Sisters - Corn, Beans and Squash, but grew other crops as well.
Many of the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia's coast and interior were horticulturalists and aquaculturalists. A study of pre-European cultivated areas that I am working on is really exciting in that these 'gardens' are actually turning out to be 'fields', which we predict may turn out to be hundreds and hundreds of acres. We suspect that they were also growing potatoes and cucumbers before the arrival of Europeans. Camas, a starchy carbohydrate bulb, was grown, consumed and traded extensively, forming a major component of the Indigenous economy, as well as diet.'Clam gardens', a sophisticated form of aquaculture, were unknown until recognized about 20 years ago, and what we are learning from them is amazing!
Recently, it has been found that the Indigenous people of the prairies, formerly thought to simply follow the herds of bison, were also actively practicing horticulture to produce food, medicines and materials.
For some reason, Joe Public seems to think that we know everything there is to know about our North and South American Indigenous cultures (not pointing at you Little Guy). I suspect this is tool of colonization, encouraged by greedy governments and enterpeneurs. You can't justify stealing people's lands and resources, if you praise them and their culture. You have to denegrate and disparage them, so that it is ok to subjugate them and take over the territory of these lesser beings that clearly don't know the value of that land or the resources anyway.
Another general thought seems to be that 'Indians' lived on meat or fish. No one can live on those alone. Just watch "Alone" and see how those folks make out!
Makes sense to grow your food and keep it handy, rather than traveling to go get it all the time.
Hope that helps. Cheers