metis

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Metis
    n 1: a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American
         Indian ancestry

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

M'etis \M['e]`tis"\, n. m. M'etisse \M['e]`tisse"\, n. f.[F.;
   akin to Sp. mestizo. See {Mestizo}.]
   1. The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an
      octoroon. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett.
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