Canadian. a person of mixed First Nations and European ancestry: a member of the Métis Nation, recognized constitutionally as one of Canada’s rights-bearing Indigenous peoples.
métis, any person of mixed racial ancestry.
Canadian. belonging or relating to the Métis.
Métis communities developed along the fur trade routes.
métis, being of mixed racial ancestry.
a person of mixed parentage
the offspring or a descendant of a French Canadian and a North American Indian
a member or descendant of a group of such people, who established themselves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan as a distinct political and cultural force during the nineteenth century
a person having one eighth Black ancestry; octoroon
First recorded in 1810–20; from French, Middle French, from Late Latin mixtīcius “of mixed blood”
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Massoud also pauses at a monument to Louis Riel, a 19th-century Canadian revolutionary of Franco-Chipewyan Métis descent, who was executed in 1885 for leading an Indigenous rebellion for civil rights.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025
Mr Ambrose has connected with his biological relatives, and has become a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024
Norquay, who was Métis, became the province’s fifth premier in 1878.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023
Mr. Beauvais, then 65, had spent a lifetime describing himself as “half French, half Indian,” or Métis, and he had grown up with his grandparents in a log house in a Métis settlement.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2023
All day, it had been a replay of that old First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Student Association debate.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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