Métis
1 Americannoun
plural
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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.
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métis, any person of mixed racial ancestry.
adjective
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Canadian. belonging or relating to the Métis.
Métis communities developed along the fur trade routes.
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métis, being of mixed racial ancestry.
noun
noun
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a person of mixed parentage
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the offspring or a descendant of a French Canadian and a North American Indian
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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
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a person having one eighth Black ancestry; octoroon
Other Word Forms
- Métisse noun
Etymology
Origin of Métis
First recorded in 1810–20; from French, Middle French, from Late Latin mixtīcius “of mixed blood”
Example Sentences
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On Thursday, Carney he will sit down with First Nations leaders and later this month with Inuit and Metis groups.
From BBC
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
Bellingham-based artist Natasha Donovan, who is Métis — a recognized Canadian aboriginal people with mixed European and Indigenous ancestry — drew the illustration, which depicts Adam speaking next to fishermen on a river under a sunset.
From Seattle Times
Mr Beauvais, 68, was raised Métis - an indigenous people in Canada of mixed indigenous and European ancestry.
From BBC
Mr Ambrose has connected with his biological relatives, and has become a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
From BBC
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