Stories of Growing Up Métis
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2016
- Explore Métis culture through hearing a story. Sharing a rich history from their past and today, Métis people are preserving culture through stories told through each generation.
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Métis people are not just mixed race people. They are also not just someone who is half indigenous and a half French Canadian. The Metis people are a specific culture of people with a distinct history. If you are of mixed heritage it does not make you Métis. It is not a blanket label. Again, it is a specific culture. This is very misunderstood.
We aren't only French and indigenous. My family is mostly Scottish and English, with a bit of French with Cree.
@@tamj9115 Yes, I also descend from the anglo Metis community at Red River.
This makes no sense, Metis is french for Mixed race same with mestizo in Spanish. I don't know Metis people but in my father's country Mexico everyone is metis/mestizo descendants of Spaniards and Native Americans. Some of these people look Mexican some just plain white.
@@gentilewarriorsince you mentioned it also many mestizos in Mexico also look mostly white, I my self know for a fact that I have nahualt ancestry and also some sephardic jewish ancestry, but yes the biggest ethnic group in Mexico are mestizos
@@joaquinflores3547 these people are the same as you and me since hundreds of thousands French settlers relocated in Mexico during Napoleon's time and intermarried with the Spaniards and indigenous peoples. These people are indistinguishable from the average Mexican
Proud to be Métis-Cree
From an American, what a GREAT people and a wonderful part of Canadian history.
American history too! Lots of Métis history in North Dakota especially, Montana too.
Written with a small m, métis is an old French word meaning "mixed", and it is used here in a general sense for people of dual Indian-White ancestry. Capitalized, Métis generally refers to people of the post-contact indigenous people, the Métis Nation.
i dunno there are many mixed races with the white , im not knowing about the others
Métis people have their own distinct culture and traditional homeland. We are our own people. It's not about having mixed ancestry. Canada sought to erase us.
It’s usually French or Celtic mixed with Canadian and northern American indigenous tribes in particular. We have our own culture and people that developed from this particular mixed lineage. We are our own people (: and unfortunately Craig is right. Canada and the US put Métis people in residential schools as well. They wanted us gone and like most indigenous populations they still do want us gone sadly.
In Spanish it is called mestizo, which majority of Latin American identify
In Latin America no one calls each other mestizos because everyone is mestizo. We identify more with our nation for Mexico, Colombia, Chile, it's sad that Metis in Canada don't have their own nation but I believe majority of Quebec is metis/mestizo and deserve their own nation just like people of Latin America.
Metis from Ontario, Canada and i'm proud of it
I am also from Ontario and have barely heard of the Metis but I am educating myself about the culture.
Métis from Vancouver!
@@Sunnyloll same!!!
I am Metis as well!!
Mestizo and Metis are pretty much the same people. Mestizo would be the majority of Latin Americans here in the US or Mexico, Canada, Central America and most of South America. People of mixed indigenous and European ancestry
Métis is just the French word for mestizo
@David Compestela Both Spanish and French are European. Mestizos in Latin America and Metis in Canada might have different national mixes, but they do have very similar Ethnic mixes.
I get it lol my mom parents are Métis and my dad is a full blooded first nation
@@thenativebeauty3754 probably explains why metis I've seen or encountered I would assume that they were mexican, since 60% of mexico is native american mix European (spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Greek)
Which means they are not indigenous and shouldn't be pretending. They are just mixed people.
Im metis but never learnt about my culture as my father didnt seem to care
One day id love to learn much more
Raised on a reservation but not a metis reservation
There's no such thing as a Metis coming from a Rez lol Metis people are half white half native people LOL if you come from a Rez your native not Metis
@@thenativebeauty3297 maybe he's from métis descent but on a rez ? I don't know just gessing. I get that its not propabable, but maybe possible ?
I'm not metis but I'm mestizo, I have mixed ancestry with native salvadorans and Spanish blood but I also have ancestry from the middle east and from Germany.🇨🇦🇸🇻
Nobody cares. This isn't about you.
@@-Unimpressed- you cared enough to respond.
Mimi S hey man they aren’t Métis but they are still a mixed people
@@roguetoa9787 in latinamerica had mixed with french and native too not only with spaniards, there are several mixes: portuguese, italian, russian, scotish, afriacan subharian, arab, asian, etc
@@lewiss.3786 do u have metal problems?
Proud to be a Canadian
Seeing your faces brings tears to my eyes.. My Canadian grandfather was half Sioux, Maman was mixed as well I'm sure but don't know for a fact how or what or who.. I was born and grew up over the big pond, but we visited Canada frequently in my youth. I always cried when we had to go back to the Netherlands where I still live.. Lately my heart is breaking open with a force that is just unstoppable.. All my life I felt like my world was different from those around me here, my life experience in the way I sense/ perceive.. There are gifts arising simultaneously and what a blessing it would be if there was some guidance in human form at certain spiritual crises. Apparently I have to do this "alone" (as far as living breathing humans go), and I can.. There are more of us of course I know I'm not alone.. Never alone.. I know my forefathers are part of me.. I have felt so intensely alone for so much of my life.. These are my people..We are so beautiful. When I look in your eyes and faces, I recognize my soul blue-print.. I love you.. Thank you for this wonderful clip.
I want to add that I do not mean by stating the above that "other races" can not experience what I do.. We are all part of the same Universe.. One love..
You're not alone, I'm metis. grew up and was born in Australia and was treated like a foreigner and went to schools that were predominantly anglo-saxan. meanwhile me a slightly brown dude whom people assumed was an immigrant and no one knew my ethnicity, I was always led to believe that I wasn't enough of that ethnicity to be able to get support, I was racially excluded, copped with frequent bullying, violence and sexual assault and was hated by over 100 people at my school. Every time I have gone back to Canada I felt nothing but sadness coming back.
I think I can consider myself as a native and not a metis cause my mother is metis but my father is native (not 100% he have Portugal blood too but in great majority native) and my skin is darker than the people in that video...Anyway i just want to say that métis or native, it doesn’t madder, we still brother and sister cause we are from Mother Earth.
Peace
Lakota BoyZ Omg my mom is Metis too lol and both of my moms parents are both Metis too lol and my dad is a full blooded native lol! 😍😍❤️❤️ finally someone who is like me!! 😊❤️❤️ and my dad is 100% Native American but my mom is only "part" Native! And yes we would be more Native!! But both of our parents are both considered INDIGENOUS!! ❤️❤️
Keep those thoughts to yourself Lakota BoyZ, you're beeing pathetic. 😂
@@albinullanger7862 Actually, you are the one being pathetic
I am learning French, hope I can connect to your culture ♥
Awesome! I Bet You’ll Do Great.. :D
no u
Métis speak mischief...... well over here anyway a mix of Cree and French
IN Hispanic America in the 21 countries of Spanish origin American , we are called Mestizos children of Native Americans +Europeans= Mestizos , especially Spanish, Portuguese (Italian and French).😃😃😃
Métis is in the French language, in Spanish it is Mestizo, the two words are similar in meaning and how they are written.French os lengua latin (Spanish, Portuguese,Italian ,Romanian).
Kind regards to Canada .
What about Omlec culture? They seem like innovative culture...
Metis from Belcourt ND.
I"m old enough to remember when a lot of Metis claimants today were ashamed of even admitting to others let alone to themselves of their Indian blood.
wovokanarchy my mother's grandmother waited until she was on her deathbed to reveal to her family that she was metis .
My grandfather did not claim Métis status "I don't want to be treated different from any body else" is what I heard he had said about that.. Although it wasn't a secret, really. It was clear he was half first nation just from looking at his very native face and skin-tone.. When I saw dances with wolves at age 12 or so, was the first time I consciously realized his, and subsequently my heritage.. No one had ever told me the man I looked up to and adored all my life was what he was. I cried and things fell into place about why I was the way I was.. I went to my father to ask and he always tried to hush me up.. He even got angry at me for asking questions.. I never understood why, growing up that it was so hard to talk about it for him.. But the yearning to know and understand within me was unstoppable.. Blood is thicker than water.. Now I understand much more.. Now, I'm almost 40 and where I live, faces like mine are uncommon.. It's round-ish, I have almond-ish eyes, I get can get extremely tan in a red-hue without really getting sunburn but my complexion in winter is very white.. Gifts are arising and I have always felt like a complete outsider here in Europe, or maybe the world even.. My life experience has always been multi dimensional so to speak and I was aware others did not perceive the world like I did, overall.. and I'm sure more people recognize the struggle of going the road alone. Now I'm slowly coming home.. My generation may be the first to make peace and rediscover our heritage after all these years.. All these years.. All these generations. My heart is open and the universe is just flooding me with love lately.. I love being who I am.. And all that came before and will follow.. Peace ♥ :-)
Me too, I am 54 and proud to be Metis. My oldest brother would say he was an Indian and my mother would get so mad at him and say "You're not an indian, you're French". lol Even thought we are, French, English, Scottish, Swampy Cree, Ojibwa, Chipewyan.
This was my 5th great grandparents on my father's side.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fidler
My 5th great grandmother's people were from the area of York Factory, Manitoba, she was Swampy Cree.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampy_Cree
+JiM Beamer
You can't claim that, you didn't know their grandfather, you're only assuming.
What would you know if you're not Metis or grew up Metis? Trust me! the white community sure as hell let us know we were different just because of our beautiful lol olive skin tone. A lot of those white chicks lusted after our skin tone while their parents hated us. My 3 brothers and I were doing them right and left back in the day, we had girls at the house constantly. My metis mother never had to clean a thing with them around. lol
thats true thats my Dad I grew up not knowing how much native blood we had in us my cousins and i still argue the quantum I don't believe my Mom she was White and part Spanish and she was always the authoritative not my Dad and he was the Indian ...Dad never spoke out till he quit drinking
then I and my brother s and sisters had to figure out a lot of it as we grew in understanding
I know now he suffered a lot of Racism
I ve been thru that too
not enough Indian or not enough white
The Metis have had it rough as far as Racism goes I ve learn to accept things in our society but the real puritanical Caucasian or Landed Immigrant that is uneducated in Indigenous matters are the most unacceptable creatures on mars ...and thats where they belong ...Mars
I speak on behalf of many A'HO
In the Philippines and the former Spanish colonies, the Spanish word for Metis is Mestizo, meaning a mixed individual of any 2 or more backgrounds (indigenous, Spanish, Chinese, or black etc.). Greetings from a mestizo descendant!
Nope y’all Filipinos ain’t Spanish
@@kobejames5788 Of course we aren't Spanish nationals- but that doesnt cancel our Hispanized culture. You can be Hispanic without being from Hispano-America, as for example Equitorial Guinea and the Spanish Sahara speak in Spanish.
@@kobejames5788 there are still full Spanish families living in the Philippines even after 300 years. Search the video “Filipinos de ascendencia española” Those families still live here, and there are many more like them
@@minim6981 barley
@@kobejames5788 true that. The Philippines is greatly/predominantly a pure nation unlike Spain’s other ex colonies. “Mestizos” of Malay and Spanish descent are a extremely small minority and their percentage is still very low to be considered “mestizo”. I think if anything there’s more Chinese Malay mixed Filipinos but a lot of them ignore that and only acknowledge and take pride in the Spanish ancestry that usually is nonexistent or is from a very long time ago and is a tiny percentage.
Metis also known as Mestizos and other mixed races often have identity troubles that is not always the case but many times it is
Unlike Latin America they have no nation therefore the confusion
Aren't Mestizo also Omlec?
I'm metis we live in Canada sk we are good people
I'm metis too. My mother is metis and both of her parents are metis!
I’m French Canadian and I just found out I’m part Native American
So sad that when the whites were at war with the indigenous, metis must have had a hard life
Correct me if I’m wrong
the metis and First nation Cheif ppumdmaker and plains Indians were allies. the metis and plains cree had respect for eachother. when riel and metis moved to batosh life was good. until Anglo Saxon whites came and caused problems.
luckily the metis gained recognition around 1813. This meant they could identify with both of their races. Most metis tend to be white/native but you can also have black/native mixes as well. In the USA people of mixed indigenous descent must choose to identify as either Native American or White. And if you identify as native american you have to be enrolled in a state or federal tribe.
Though within the past 5 years I have noticed that on job applications and other forms you can now select more than one race if you choose to identify as both. But due to American history of forcefully segregating Natives, you will have many Rez natives look down their nose at city natives, and vice versa. It's almost like some of them want you to pass their own little paper bag test to see if you're native enough. Osiquu, we are coming together and hopefully can accomplish the respect of our Canadian based brethren.
Im metis and i've heard about that when I was 7 and yes the metis back then us metis had it rough
Metis are not indigenous.
Both my parents were Metis as well, Fiddler and Chartrand.
My 5th great grandfather was Peter Fidler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fidler
Wow!! This is a very late reply but I¡m related to the Fidlers as well! George Fidler is my 5th great grandfather.
This is good
i am metis
You can consider yourself a Metis if you have proof that you're a direct descendant of a European and Native couple originally from the Metis homeland. There's no minimum blood requirements, at least not in Canada.
How does one apply for tribal recognition in the u.s. for the metis tribe
There is no Metis tribe in the U.S. per se, most Metis and halfbreeds have to show descent from a member of a federally recognized tribe. I am a Metis and I belong to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, which has a lot of Metis from Canada in the tribe. Pretty much if you are from Turtle Mountain, you're very highly likely a Metis.
MrDeathd metis are recognized in Canada because they develop a culture and language of their own mixture of native and European mix together something most can't do in America..... Plus Metis does mean Half....
@@frankbrody239 if you're a member of a state recognized tribe, the other states are constitutionally required to acknowledge your identification with your ethnicity. Any sort of federally promised benefit, however, are exclusive only to members of federally recognized tribes. Many of which depend on very specific conditions that sadly were done with poor/little thought based on stipulations made by the US government. However, state recognized Natives are also protected under "the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990" stating they are allowed to sell anywhere in the country as "Authentic Native American" items, and making it a federal offense for non natives to sell items as "Native". Honestly a step in the right direction, but the whole subject at hand is relegated in complex history. I will say this, come into the subject objectively. Don't prepare yourself to be swayed to one side or the other thinking that "federal" means the only way. I personally am only state enrolled but am qualified to enroll in one of the 3 federal bands of the Ani'yv Wiya tribe. I choose not to enroll for my own personal reasons that are delved in my own principles. Many also choose to not enroll or even have burned their enrollment cards in protest. Whites say we just want benefits. Trust me when I say all we want is to practice our culture without harassment or foreign stipulation. Allow us to teach the language in our schools if any child wants to learn.
But here in the US, you are accurate with your statement, but I think there's a recognized tribe in the North Eastern USA that identifies with the Metis? I could be mistaken on that. But I would like to say, many of us Natives in the USA really aspire to the tribes of the North. We sort of live vicariously through your accomplishments. Wado udohiyu utsatsi! Gusdi idadadvhni.
@Jonathan Soko actually there is yet to be any DNA database for ANY south eastern tribes indiginous to modern USA. Eastern Band of Cherokee members have taken dna tests and came back with very interesting results. Some included Mediterranean but family records show no proof of descent from the area. In this case it would be with some heavy assimilation and interbreeding between settlers and those tribes. Plus when you consider the conflict of the area since colonization, many smaller tribes were either adopted or bred into the larger tribes as well as with settlers. There are no DNA database for the Oklahoma nation due to over a century of admixture with the other tribes. This includes all the big DNA sites like Ancestry and MyHeritage. I have, however, made connection on my Cherokee line with enrolled Muskogee & Cherokee members through both of the websites. Which goes to show how many strong we are now, just imagine those that choose not to enroll or don't know of their heritage?
But as you said, there are a-many Cherokee Princesses out there lol. I could also suggest that they look into their family records through actual census, birth, marriage, and adoption records if they need a solid lead. Some tribes had very specific stipulations set by the federal government so they are based off of very exclusive rolls. They should also consider state recognized groups as well. Clearly the ones that require proof based on census records of documented communities and not the ones based solely on family lore. Though that is a bit of a rabbit hole when you consider the bias some groups may have over differences from more than 150 years ago. But for further food for thought: The Principal Chief of the Oklahoma band is but 1/32 Cherokee by blood quantum (not DNA).
i now want some pemmican
My dad side part metis blood line from cree people
My mom is a Colombian mestizo
You're still White Latinx.
@@-Unimpressed-
Mestizo =Mètis .
If only one of your parents is Metis, does that make you Metis too?
Hello Chanti. The following link might be helpful...
www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014427/1346434788986
To join the metis nation you have to have proof of your family's relation either through pictures or birth certificates. They only go back 4 genertaions so your great granparents, after that they don't claim it. So technically you have to be a quater 25% percent of first nations to get a metis card. Records also have to be from turtle mountain or red river settlement as thats were metis originated. It took a long time for my family to obtain our cards because their birth certificates were taken by the manitoba government because all of my aunts and uncles and mother were adopted out during the 1960s. In the 1960s they closed adoption cases so many first nations people could not find out who their real parents were.
Yes!! both of my parents are metis!💖💖😍
Ruby Lace Yes you are still Metis! And don't ever let people think your not!
granny
pov: HeRe FoR ScHoOl... LiKe ThIs If YoU aRe
Lol 60% of mexico is mix European and native american while Canada is only 1.5% 🤣
Canada is comprised largely of European settlers, with British and French as largest 2. The French voyagers married Indigenous women in order to successfully barter (fur trade) and assimilate into the culture. They are known as the Métis, meaning mixed. However, the Indigenous peoples of Canada are mostly nomadic and semi-nomadic unlike in Mexico where they formed cities and villages with governments similar to today. Also many of them are monotheistic (believe and worship a creator God). This is a contrast to the Aztecs, Mayans and Zapotecs. Today, Canada is a melting pot of various cultures and ethnicities, not necessarily mixed like Métis. Here in Alberta we have an annual festival we call Heritage Day to celebrate the “multicultural mosaic” of our province. Interwoven into the history are the unique contributions of about 70 cultures that make up Alberta.
Are they mexicans?
Mount Lel 123 What? No. They're mixed European and First Nations people.
Not a weird question though because Mexicans are also generally of Mixed Native American (the continent) and European descent.. So you will see similarities.
Mixed French Canadian, and Cree
No
Kinda. But instead of being a mix of Aztecs and Spaniards, they're a mix of Crees and French people.
In USA, these people are not indigenous.
like that really matters smh