Half-Breed Tract

Description

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Half-Breed
Tract was a segment of land designated in the western states by the
United States government in the 19th century specifically for people of
American Indian and European or European-American ancestry, known as
mixed bloods. The government set aside such tracts in several U.S.
states, including Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In this
context, mixed-blood people were the descendants of marriages or
relationships between American Indian and white Europeans or European
Americans. Also known as „half-breeds“ in the U.S. or métis in Canada,
these people were often descended from American Indian women and
French-Canadian, Scots and Orkney Island fathers, who dominated early
fur trapping and trade. The men lived far from other Europeans. Others
had fathers who were American trappers and traders.