Metis
Appearance
Metis or Métis, meaning "mixed" in French, may refer to:
Ethnic groups
[edit]- Metis, mixed race persons in Gabon and elsewhere in francophone Africa
- Métis, recognized Indigenous communities in Canada and America whose distinct culture and language emerged after early intermarriage between First Nations peoples and early European settlers, primarily French fur trappers
- Métis in Canada are a recognized Indigenous nation, descended from specific First Nations peoples and early European settlers, and who trace their lineage to the Métis Homeland. Métis people are a nation with distinct cultural practices and language.
- Métis in the United States are also a specific cultural community, with a recognized culture, lineage and homeland, and not just any "mixed" people
Organizations in Canada
[edit]Organizations with "Metis" or "Métis" in their names. May or may not have the same criteria for membership
Other
[edit]- Manitoba Métis Federation
- Métis Nation of Ontario
- Woodland Metis Tribe (Northern Ontario)
- North Slave Métis Alliance, Northwest Territories
- Vancouver Métis Community Association
Places
[edit]- Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada
- Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada
- Saint-Paul-des-Métis, now St. Paul, Alberta, Canada
- Metis Shoal, the tip of a submarine volcano in Tonga
- Metiş, a village in Mihăileni, Sibiu, Romania
- Metis Island in Antarctica
Other uses
[edit]- 9 Metis, an asteroid
- 9K115 Metis, a Russian anti–tank missile system
- 9K115-2 Metis-M, a Russian anti–tank missile system
- Metis (American musician) (fl. 21st century), American rapper
- Metis (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover
- Metis (Japanese musician) (born 1984), Japanese reggae singer
- Metis (moon), the innermost and fastest-moving of Jupiter's known moons
- Metis (mythology), an Oceanid and the first wife of Zeus
- Metis (software), business modeling software
- Metis (software), integrated cloud-based system provided by Oracle for Home Office
- METIS, a software package for graph partitioning
- Metis TransPacific Airlines, a Canadian airline based in Vancouver
- Metis (holothurian), or Actinopyga, a genus of sea cucumbers
- Metis (Character), a playable character from Persona 3 FES
See also
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- Metisse, windowing software
- Metius, Dutch geometer
- Metius (crater), a lunar impact crater
- All pages with titles beginning with Metis
- All pages with titles containing Metis
- Meti (disambiguation)
- Mestizo