A Threaded Discussion of French and Métis Influence in Minnesota
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Minnesota's French Legacy Forum
A Threaded Discussion of French and Métis Influence in Minnesota |
One View of how the French met the First Nations of the Americas
. . . These Métis are the true Natives of Canada. Indians and Europeans were immigrants -- only the millennia separated their penetration into the New World. The meeting of the two races produced a mixture which was not from another land, but whose sole roots were in the New World.( Sealey, D. B. and Lussier, A. S. (1975). The Métis: Canada's Forgotten People. Winnipeg: Manitoba Metis Federation Press. p. 9) |
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