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English half-breed
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a half-breed having an English-speaking father and an Indian mother.
Quotations
1820
A few attached English halfbreeds would therefore be of the utmost importance to us.
1860
Whenever an opportunity offered for sending home, I would see the French Half-breed running round a circle of carts, very often upwards of a thousand in number, in search for an English Half-breed to pen a few lines for him.
1963
There a quarrel between private traders and the some officers of the Hudson's Bay Company had blown up into an agitation by the half-caste people of Red River--the French métis and the English half-breeds--against the monopoly. . . .