USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Métis Nation is comprised of descendants of people born of relations between First Nations women and European men. The offspring of these unions were of mixed ancestry. Over time a new Indigenous people called the Métis resulted from the subsequent intermarriage of these individuals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Métis are a specific Indigenous (and Aboriginal) group in Canada with a very specific social history. Until very recently, they have not been regarded as ‘Indians’ under Canadian law and are never considered ‘First Nations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first Métis People emerged in eastern Canada in the early 1600s with the arrival of European explorers and their unions with Indigenous women. One of the earliest Metis baptisms found was for André Lasnier, born in 1620 in Port Latour, Nova Scotia, but baptized in France in 1632.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Métis continue to live in extended families today. Spousal and parental roles in a nuclear family structure were relatively restricted in the past. Women were mothers, tended the home and raised the children. Men maintained a position of dominance and authority and were the breadwinners.

Detailed explanation-5: -Who are the Métis? The Métis are a distinct Indigenous people with both First Nations and Euro-Settler ancestry. They arose out of the fur trade, in the late 1700s, in the interior of west-central North America as the children of First Nations women and Euro-Canadian/European fur trade employees.