Definition of "Metis"

Metis¹

/meɪˈtiː(s)/

proper noun
1. (Canada) 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.
noun
plural Metis
1. (chiefly Canada, US) A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.
  Quotations
  Gabriel Du Pre is a Metis, a descendent[sic] of the Cree, Chippewa and Ojibwe tribes mixed with French.
  2003, Joan Beam, Barbara Branstad, The Native American in Long Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography : Supplement, 1995-2002, Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press
2. (chiefly Canada) A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.
  Quotations
  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: […]
  1912, Eugène Sue, Works of Eugène Sue: The wandering Jew, page 161
  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."
  1991, Thomas C. Pocklington, University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center, The Government and Politics of the Alberta Metis Settlements, University of Regina Press , page 14

/ˈmiːtɪs/