Metis

Examples

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• Maria Campbell, a well-known Metis community worker and author, organized a staggeringly generous 10-course meal.

  Academic text (2013)

• On average, Metis children stayed longer than their full-blood counterparts—three years rather than two years.

  Academic text (2000)

• Anna Jane Riggs wrote about a similar incident with two Metis girls who lived with her family.

  Academic text (2000)

• In 1971, the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood and the Manitoba Metis Federation proposed the creation of Native Migration Centres.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Julia LaFromboise, a Metis woman, lived with the missionaries for many years and attended a female seminary in the Midwest.

  Academic text (2000)

• In addition, many Cowessess members were Metis, including chiefs and headmen, and intermarriage between band members and Metis people persisted well into the twentieth century.

  Academic text (2009)

• Pederson's calling of Don Freed to the feast by singing his haunting ballad of the St. Laurent Metis, "When This Valley," acknowledged some of the enduring pain of Metis history.

  Academic text (2013)

• The walls of the feasting hall, surmounted by banners with the infinity symbols of the two versions of the Metis flag and a giant Metis sash, had been turned into an art gallery for the evening.

  Academic text (2013)

• We segued to tortire with beet horseradish relish while catching glimpses of Metis history through the parade of clothing worn during the camps and settlement era.

  Academic text (2013)

• Anna Jane Riggs wrote about a similar incident with two Metis girls who lived with her family.

Surface Forms

Etymology