Amongst notable Métis people are television actor Tom Jackson, [98] Commissioner of the Northwest Territories Tony Whitford, and Louis Riel who led two resistance movements: the Red River Rebellion of 1869-1870 and the North- West Rebellion of 1885, which ended in his trial.
notable Métis people are television actor Tom Jackson, [98] Commissioner of the North Amongst west Territories Tony Whitford, and Louis Riel who led two resistance movements: the Red River Rebellion of 1869-1870 and the North- West Rebellion of 1885, which ended in his trial. [99][100][101] The languages inherently Métis are either Métis French or a mixed language called Michif. Michif, Mechif or Métchif is a phonetic spelling of Métif, a variant of Métis. [102] The Métis today predominantly speak English, with French a strong second language, as well as numerous Aboriginal tongues. A 19th-century community of the Métis people, the Anglo-Métis, were referred to as Countryborn. They were children of Rupert's Land fur trade typically of Orcadian, Scottish, or English paternal descent and Aboriginal maternal descent.[103] Their first languages would have been Aboriginal (Cree, Saulteaux, Assiniboine, etc.) and English. Their fathers spoke Gaelic, thus leading to the development of ...