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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.
A Half-Breed Tract was a segment of land designated in the western states by the United States government in the 19th century specifically for Métis of American Indian and European or European-American ancestry, at the time commonly known as half-breeds.
This category is for Métis peoples and topics in the United States. Métis are a specific ethnic group descended from French, Scottish, and English colonists and Great Lakes and Plains Native American peoples from the 16th and 19th centuries at the height of the fur trade.
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This page lists citizens of the United States who have identified as being Métis.This ethnic group developed from French, Scottish, and English traders and colonists who intermarried with Great Lakes and Plains Native peoples from the 18th and 19th centuries at the height of the fur trade.
There are some 230 speakers of Michif in the United States (down from 390 at the 1990 census), [12] most of whom live in North Dakota, particularly in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. [13] There are around 300 Michif speakers in the Northwest Territories, northern Canada. [14]
Following the Red River rebellion (1869) and the North-West Rebellion (1885), Métis people were dispossessed from their land through a practice of issuing scrip that promised land in the Prairie Provinces in exchange for their land rights in more southern homelands.
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