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The term Métis referred to persons of Aboriginal and French Canadian ancestry. Persons of Aboriginal and Scots/British ancestry preferred the term:

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Mètis are people of mixed European and indigenous ancestry and one of the three recognized aboriginal ppls in Canada. The use of this term (mètis) means complex and contentious and has historical and contemporary meanings. I hope I helped(:
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