Meaning of metis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person of mixed-race ancestry.
2. One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.
   Canada
3. A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.
   Canada, US
4. A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena
   Greek
5. Practical intelligence; street smarts.
   uncountable
6. Alternative spelling of Metis.
   alt-of, alternative
7. Alternative letter-case form of Metis (“a member of one of three Canadian Aboriginal peoples; any person of mixed European and Indigenous descent”).
   Canada, US, alt-of
8. A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.
   Canada
9. A satellite of Jupiter.
10. A person of one-eighth black ancestry; an octoroon.
    US
11. 9 Metis, a main belt asteroid.

Equivalents

Examples

“Gabriel Du Pre is a Metis, a descendent^([sic]) of the Cree, Chippewa and Ojibwe tribes mixed with French.”

“He is a Métis, that is, the son of a white father and Indian mother. He has dwelt long in cities where Europeans have conducted business, and speaks English and French very well; the other two chiefs are a Negro and an Indian: […]”

“Malcolm Norris proposed that "if he has one drop of Indian blood in his veins and has not been assimilated into the social fabric of our civilization he is a Metis."”

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