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1. In France, "métis" is a general word referring to anyone who is mixed race.
2. In Canada and the northern USA, the Métis are a distinct ethnic group, descended from French and Scottish men who married Amerindian (mostly Cree, Ojibwa and Algonquin) women. There are around 390,000 people in Canada who identify as belonging to the Métis people: around 1.3% of the Canadian population.
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