The first Nations people make up just over 3 per cent of the Canadian population and the group is slowly growing. Some people from outside North America, as well as a fair number of North Americans themselves, seem to have the impression that all Native people speak the same language or various dialects of the same language. This is a stereotype of the kind fostered by many older Hollywood movies about the American Wild West. The reality is different. The native people in Canada, who can be divided into some 600 groups, are predominantly but not exclusively members of the Algonquian group; other groups represented in Canada are the Iroquoian, Salishan, Athapaskan and Inuit. The tribal associations, together with linguists and elders, are currently doing much work to preserve, analyse and consolidate many currently doing much work to preserve, analyse and consolidate many of the Native languages, which are in danger of being lost. Many school on the reservations are now teaching both the language and students of linguistics are able to take courses in indigenous languages as part of their curriculum.