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Metis
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Erkekler davrandıkları gibi, kadınlarsa göründükleri gibidirler. Erkekler kadınları seyrederler. Kadınlarsa seyredilişlerini seyrederler.
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History calls them a defeated people, but the Metis do not feel defeated, and that is what is important. Today, as in the old days, they play their fiddles, sing, dance, and tell their children the old stories. They work hard, as they have always done. They do not mind when they are called Metis, halfbreeds, mixed bloods, Canadians or bois-brules. They know who they are: 'Ka tip aim soot chic' -- the people who own themselves.
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― Riel's People: How the Metis Lived
― Riel's People: How the Metis Lived
