See also: half-breed (def. 1)
- 1863  (1888)  A large number of Crees and mixed bloods have signed an address to the new Governor, asking for a peaceable settlement.
- 1960  The traders and their "servants" liked the land and the free life and, mingling with the Indians and with Metis bands, within a generation formed a new and dominant element, the mixed bloods, descended from French and Scottish fathers and Indian mothers, speaking a dialect of French intermixed with Cree, living as canoemen and runners for the fur-trade, as buffalo hunters and makers of pemmican, with cabins . . . along the river fronts.