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jam*wil Wrote:a full metis person is someone who is half native, and half european 'white'. Being 1/16 metis, is the same thing as being 1/32 native.
I guess you wouldn't learn about that in US school, but in Canadian school you learn it.
way to swing the topic James
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SnoBordPrincess Wrote:way to swing the topic James 
Yeah, he stole it! Maybe we should hunt HIM down :p
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jam*wil Wrote:a full metis person is someone who is half native, and half european 'white'. Being 1/16 metis, is the same thing as being 1/32 native.
I guess you wouldn't learn about that in US school, but in Canadian school you learn it.
Always thought it was half native half french...
I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegitarian.
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Powder.fan. Wrote:Always thought it was half native half french...
technically it is, but the government has no way of telling if your french so they just expanded their classification to all white people.
And I never stole the topic, people asked what metis was and i answered.
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jam*wil Wrote:technically it is, but the government has no way of telling if your french so they just expanded their classification to all white people.
And I never stole the topic, people asked what metis was and i answered.
Then lets hunt THEM down!
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jjyank Wrote:Then lets hunt THEM down!
They stopped hunting the Metis in Western Canada in 1926. It became illegal in Quebec and Ontario in the fifties.
And no, it doesn;t matter french or english white... that wasn;t the part that they were hunting anyways....
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Dino00235 Wrote:They stopped hunting the Metis in Western Canada in 1926. It became illegal in Quebec and Ontario in the fifties.
And no, it doesn;t matter french or english white... that wasn;t the part that they were hunting anyways....
lol. Well that settled that.
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jam*wil Wrote:lol. Well that settled that.
I guess so. Well maybe we should just go back to the spammers.