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The doubts, however, are based ultimately on the definition and meaning which different scholars give to the term 'tribe', its adjective 'tribal', and its abstract form 'tribalism'. [5] Despite the membership boundaries for a tribe being conceptually simple, in reality they are often vague and subject to change over time.
The Métis (/ m ɛ ˈ t iː (s)/ meh-TEE(SS), French:, Canadian French: [meˈt͡sɪs], [citation needed] Michif: [mɪˈt͡ʃɪf]) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States.
The Gros Ventre (US: / ˈ ɡ r oʊ v ɒ n t / GROH-vont, French: [ɡʁo vɑ̃tʁ]; meaning "big belly"), also known as the A'aninin, Atsina, [5] or White Clay, [6] are a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe located in northcentral Montana.
The name Pend d’Oreille (French: [pɑ̃ d‿ɔ.ʁɛj]), which means "hangs from ear", was attributed to them by French-speaking colonists and traders in reference to the large shell earrings worn by these people. The name Kalispel is an anglicization of their name in their own language Ql̓ispé (Salishan:), which means "Camas people". Camas ...
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche
The French pluralized the Ojibwe singular "Nadowessi" by adding the French plural suffix "oux" to form "Nadowessioux", which was later shortened to "Sioux ". [5] The Proto-Algonquian form *na·towe·wa, meaning "Northern Iroquoian", has reflexes in several daughter languages that refer to a small rattlesnake (massasauga, Sistrurus). [11]
The name "Cree" is derived from the Algonkian-language exonym Kirištino˙, which the Ojibwa used for tribes around Hudson Bay. The French colonists and explorers, who spelled the term Kilistinon, Kiristinon, Knisteneaux, [14] [15] Cristenaux, and Cristinaux, used the term for numerous tribes which they encountered north of Lake Superior, in ...
Louisiana French (LF) is the regional variety of the French language spoken throughout contemporary Louisiana by individuals who today identify ethno-racially as Creole, Cajun, or French, as well as some who identify as Spanish (particularly in New Iberia and Baton Rouge, where the Creole people are a mix of French and Spanish and speak the ...