Where the metis tribe originally live?
Metis is not a tribe, to my knowledge. It refers to persons who are a child of a French Canadian parent, and a native parent. If you are doing genealogy… don’t get yourself sidetracked with issues as to who might have crossed the Bering straight, or might not have. Genealogy has to do with verifying with valid records, exactly WHO YOUR INDIVIDUAL ancestors were. Subjects such as genetic origins, or where tribes originated are valid topics, but they are investigated completely different from genealogy. If you are interested in Metis ancestry, there is an EXCELLENT email list via rootsweb, that you can subscribe to.
There was no metis tribe. Metis is a word that means half native North American and half white – more specifically, half French. The metis came about after intermarriage between the french-Canadian fur traders and the native Indian women. If you are looking for information about the first people to arrive in North America there are two schools of thought. The Clovis are believed to have arrived about 10,000 years ago, through the Bering Straight route, but recent discoveries indicate there were earlier arrivals, circa 15,000 BP, who came down the coastal route and spread inland.
Wendy and Old Lady are both right. The term “meti” means “mixed” in French. It was a term given to the children of French-Canadian men who fathered them with native women. I’m Metis on my mother’s side. The tribe was a band of the Huron nation. But the Iroquois, Mohawk. Algonquin, even Nez Perce were all mixed with the French. Sacajawea’s son was Metis. The most famous Metis was Louis Riel who was executed for defending the rights of the Metis. It’s unrelated to the Thule people who crossed the Bering Strait. If you want to give a name to the Thule as a tribe, they were the early ancestors of the Inuit.
