This finding from the Globe and Mail from 1971 speaks of 40,000 people of “mixed white-Indian heritage” living in BC at the time. In the opening paragraph it states that “White men refer to them scornfully as half-breeds and full-blooded Indians say they’re second-rate whites.”
This is clear evidence of the historical legacy of Canadian government and settler society imposed racism, subjugation, and discrimination. These were deliberate acts to separate, dispossess and destroy a people in the Pacific Northwest. Métis still live this legacy today.
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