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(she/her) Descendant of Grandmothers recorded as 👉🏽Sauvagesses👈🏽, ancestors baptized as MITIVE & MITIF. Padôgiskua is the name my ancestors know me by.
Sep 26, 2018 17 tweets 9 min read
#Chicot are Métis from the area of Lanaudière in #Québec.
Why have we always identified as Métis?
Well, for one thing, that's the last name our ancestors were given when they were recorded by the Church: #Chicot is an accepted term designating #Métis. It figures in Jean Teillet's "Métis Law in Canada" , Chapter One: Who are the Métis?
§ 1.3: Métis Identity