DCHP-2
mixed-blood † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person of mixed Indian and white ancestry.
See also: half-breed (def. 1) country-born (meaning 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.
- 1863 (1888) A large number of Crees and mixed bloods have signed an address to the new Governor, asking for a peaceable settlement.