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METIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Metis" is a kind of...):
mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups)
Domain region:
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)