Clogeroo Clogeroo:
$1:
I married a french girl who didn't really speak English and I didn't have to pay attention to what she was saying for the first few years but she eventually cottoned on to the language.
Are your children like Métis then?
Interesting question. We don't really regard ourselves Metis though we have some relatives still on the settlements. I speak Cree pretty poorly and I guarantee I'll be the last generation in my bloodline to be forced to learn it as the language in my home is French unless I am around then it is English since I reckon French is another dead useless language.
My family has been on its own for 6 generations now breeding with the whites to the point that each generation looks less and less like an Indian and more like some Italian just off the boat. We've got the Treaty 8 scrip application kicking around with some Uncle that identifies us as Metis but I've never considered using it (except in the 80s when my RCMP application was denied due to a moratorium on hiring people who could not prove they were not Caucasian.) and aside from the odd joke about going into the tobacco business, I can't think of anyone who has. We've never really regarded ourselves as anything other then Canadian.
CKA Elite 
