Half-breed

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Métis buffalo hunt
on the prairies of Dakota in June 1846.

Half-breed is a term, now considered offensive, used to describe anyone who is of mixed race; although, in the

European/white.[1]

Use by governments

United States

The Minnesota side of the Lake Pepin Half-Breed Tract (designated as 292 on the map).

In the 19th century the

Chippewa descent on the islands and shore of St. Mary's River near Sault Ste. Marie.[3]

Unusually for its time, under the 1850 Donation Land Claim Act, "half-breed Indians" were eligible for land grants in the Oregon Territory, as were married white women.

Canada

During the

North-West Company".[4]

The

North-West Territories. In 1885 children born in the North-West of Métis parents or "pure Indian and white parents" were defined as half-breeds by the commission and were eligible for "Half-breed" Scrip.[6][7][8]

In Alberta the Métis formed the "Halfbreed Association of Northern Alberta" in 1932.[9]

Geographical names

  • Halfbreed Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Halfbreed Lake in Montana

In popular culture
  • "Half-Breed" is a song recorded by Cher and released as a single in 1973. On October 6, 1973, it became Cher's second U.S. number one hit as a solo artist, and it was her second solo single to hit the top spot in Canada on the same date.[10]
  • Halfbreed is a memoir written by author Maria Campbell published in 1973. The book details her experience growing up as a Métis woman in Canada.

Further reading

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The free dictionary (half-breed)". Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  2. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7
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  3. ^ United States; Richard Peters (1848). The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America from the Organization of the Government in 1780, to March 3, 1845: Arranged in Chronological Order. With References to the Matter of Each Act and to the Subsequent Acts on the Same Subject, and Copious Notes of the Decisions of the Courts of the United States Construing Those Acts, and Upon the Subjects of the Laws . C.C. Little and J. Brown. p. 291.
  4. ^ Amos, Andrew (1820). "Report of trials in the courts of Canada, relative to the destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's settlement on the Red River With observations". Saskatoon Gen Web. London: John Murray. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
  5. ^ "Library and Archives Canada-Métis Scrip Records (Use of term Half Breed)". Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  6. ^ "Library and Archives Canada-Métis Scrip Records (Commissions-North-West Half-Breed Commissions)". Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  7. ^ "Northwest "Half-breed" Scrip". Métis National Council Historical Database. Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  8. ^ "Our Legacy-Canada. Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources (Grants to half-breeds of the Province of Manitoba and the North West Territories in respect of the extinguishment of the Indian Title, 1870-1925.) pp. 1 to 16". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  9. ^ "Councillors of the Halfbreed Association of Northern Alberta 1932" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  10. ^ "Top Singles", RPM, Volume 20, No. 8, October 06 1973, Library & Archives Canada

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