METIS
Metis
In North America, the Métis, as defined under the Métis National Council, are descendants of mixed ancestry who self-identify themselves to be Métis, and are accepted into their current community as decedents of the Red River, Manitoba settlement. The métis indicates a person of mixed Aboriginal American and European ancestry – especially a person of Algonquian and Celtic and/or French ancestry. The term is French and is a cognate of Spanish mestizo and Portuguese mestiço, which have the same meaning but indicate European ancestry associated with the Iberian peninsula. The English word "mestee" is a corruption of the ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Metis
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