"Metisse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was Louis, was born at the island of La Crosse, in the North-West Territories. This parent was the son of Jean Baptiste Riel, who was a French Canadian and a native of Berthier (en haut). His mother, that is the rebel's grandmother, was a Franco-Montagnaise Metis. From this it will be seen that instead of being a "half breed," Louis Riel is only one-eighth Indian, or is, if we might use the phrase employed in describing a mixture of Ethiopian and Caucasian ...
— The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief • Joseph Edmund Collins
... between the Assiniboine and the Saskatchewan, a half-breed community had sprung up. From their dusky faces they took the name "Bois-Brules," or "Charcoal Faces," or referring to their mixed blood, of "Metis," or as exhibiting their importance, they sought to be called "The New Nation." The blend of French and Indian was in many respects a natural one. Both are stalwart, active, muscular; both are excitable, imaginative, ambitious; both are easily amused and ...
— The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists - The Pioneers of Manitoba • George Bryce
... dinner-party: three French members and their wives, and La Colombiere, the new Minister of Finance, to whom you must be as charming as possible. This North-West business is quickening as fast as it can. The Metis are really up, ...
— Crowded Out! and Other Sketches • Susie F. Harrison
... saladis, grene metis, & of frut{es} rawe for ey make many a ma haue a feble mawe. {er}for{e}, of suche fresch lust{es} set not an hawe, For suche wantou{n} appetit{es} ar ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... intelligence. Grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess Metis, who artfully persuaded Cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. The stone which had counterfeited Zeus was placed at Delphi, where it was long exhibited ...
— Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome • E.M. Berens |
