FTP, name this ethnic group of the prairie provinces, descendants of intermarriage between fur traders and Native Americans.
Their language, Michif, is a pidgin using European nouns, with verbs and syntax from the language of the Cree. Implicated in the Seven Oaks massacre as agents of the Northwest Company, they resented the foundation of Fort Garry and captured it in 1870, crying out for the freedom of trade against the monopoly practiced by the Hudson's Bay Company.  The battle of Batoche fifteen years later ended their campaign of resistance under Louis Riel and provided one reason for the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. FTP, name this ethnic group of the prairie provinces, descendants of intermarriage between fur traders and Native Americans.
Their language, Michif, is a pidgin using European nouns, with verbs and syntax from the language of the Cree.
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