1820  (1938)  A few attached English halfbreeds would therefore be of the utmost importance to us.
1860  Whenever an opportunity offered for sending home, I would see the French Half-breed running round a circle of carts, very often upwards of a thousand in number, in search for an English Half-breed to pen a few lines for him.
1963  There a quarrel between private traders and the some officers of the Hudson's Bay Company had blown up into an agitation by the half-caste people of Red River--the French métis and the English half-breeds--against the monopoly. . . .