Example sentences for: métis

How can you use “métis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The province’s ethnic groups are shown in traditional costume and old homesteads; special emphasis is given to Manitoba’s Indians and a Métis buffalo hunt.

  • Led by Louis Riel, Métis descendants of Indians and French fur traders waged an armed struggle for land rights on the Red River in the face of the expansion-hungry railway builders.

  • Métis and Cree Indians were devastatingly efficient with their repeater rifles, and the transcontinental railway builders made a deliberate policy of clearing the tracks of migrating buffalo.

  • But along the way, scores of laborers had died hacking through the mountains, buffalo were exterminated, and Indians and Métis were dispossessed of their lands.

  • Monuments and museums show how the buffalo-hunting Métis, the descendants of Indians and French fur traders, struggled in vain against Anglo farmers from Ontario, themselves subsequently relayed by waves of Eastern European immigrants brought in to exploit the grain wealth of the prairies.


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