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[Bingo]

The way to Terry

 

 

 Run for Cancer Research

 

[Bingo]

It might be a bit cooler for the run on Sunday, but Terry is prepared.

http://www.terryfox.org/Run/

 

[Victoria Watcher]

VIDEO: Terry Fox’s Metis heritage honoured with new plaque outside B.C. Place

https://www.vicnews....side-b-c-place/




I don’t quite understand the “Metis” thing. Is it some kind of new race created when an indigenous person and a European mate?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 April 2022 - 04:01 AM.

[Sparky]

Did you not pay your Google bill again?

 

The Métis people originated in the 1700s when French and Scottish fur traders married Aboriginal women, such as the Cree, and Anishinabe (Ojibway). Their descendants formed a distinct culture, collective consciousness and nationhood in the Northwest. Distinct Métis communities developed along the fur trade routes.

 

 

https://www.google.c...origin of metis

[Victoria Watcher]

But what if a French man marries an Egyptian woman? What race is created then?

[Sparky]

The Golden Eagle of course.

[Victoria Watcher]

But Darrell never understood how Terry could get up every single day to run — it wasn’t until Darrell learned of their family’s Metis heritage that he finally understood Terry’s remarkable perseverance.

“Many of the 12 core values of Metis people are Terry’s values. This history of roaming the land, leading and adhereing to a set of values was always there within Terry and helps a little more with the how,” he said.

Terry’s maternal grandmother was Mary Ann Gladue. Members of the Gladue family were buffalo hunters and fur traders on the plains. Some of Fox’s ancestors served in the provisional government of Louis Riel. Darrell thanked Metis Nation B.C. for their help in researching the Fox family ancestry.





His grandmother was Metis! That’s how he was able to make the run. Of course.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 April 2022 - 06:18 AM.

[Sparky]

I think the key to this "by-racial" topic is that there must have been a substantial number of offspring as a result of the mixed marriages between the various nationalities of the settlers and the various nations of the indigenous. 

 

I am going out on a limb assuming that this commonality created some sort of identity bond and hence the identification of the emerging "race". 

 

Is that fair to assume?

[Sparky]

I think he got up and ran everyday because HE was determined to do so.....not because his ancestors ate buffalo. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Not sure.

French men taking indigenous wives must have left the indigenous men a bit short of women, since they had no French women to court.

Sounds like ethnic cleansing to me.

Will need more investigation.

[Sparky]

Did you find another thorn in your bed sheet last night?

[lanforod]

Not sure.

French men taking indigenous wives must have left the indigenous men a bit short of women, since they had no French women to court.

Sounds like ethnic cleansing to me.

Will need more investigation.

And reparations! And apologies!