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miscegenation - answer (Latin miscere, to mix, and genus, kind or race)
marriage or sexual relations between a man and a woman of different
races.
matriorganization: - answer the organization of a society based on a
matrilocal structure, where the husband takes up residence with his wife's
relations.
Mestizo - answer person of mixed parentage.
How, according to Olive Dickason, have historians, especially Quebec
historians, determined that métissage did not lead to the emergence of a
"New Nation" in Northeast Canada? (Dickason, pp. 20-21) - answer Very
few mixed marriages occurred. Infractions occurred but it was left to the
tribe to care for the child.
The Quebec historians write as if the Metis of the northeast never existed.
Mixed marriage was seen negatively .
What was the policy of the Company of New France on the assimilation or
"Frenchification" of Indigenous people? (Dickason, p. 22) - answer
Spiritual conformity was given priority over race. They wanted the
"savages" to conform to their faith. French
What was marriage à la façon du pays? What was the attitude of the
church in New France to such marriages? (Dickason, pp. 22-23) - answer
Intermarriage that occurred, they tried not recording these marriages
because it was frowned upon. The man became savage because they
married an aboriginal woman.
What social and economic benefits resulted from intermarriage for
Amerindians and the French in Acadia during the fur trade period?
(Dickason, pp. 23-24) - answer Children are the wealth of the country.