DCHP-3

English métis

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

1896
"Old" Joe Atkinson, an English métis from Hudson's Bay, would watch me by the hour, te-heeing with delight as each specimen was prepared and placed in its fluffy, cotton shroud on the drying shelves.