Canada - First Nations

Cree is a PC name, it's the name that the Cree use to refer to themselves. The only thing is that before, Cree was used in English to refer indistinctively to Cree, Montagnais-Innu, Naskapis and (perhaps) other related Algonkian nations.

As far as I know, there isn't any Inuit ancestry in the Metis nation. They do have Cree, Ojibwa and Chippewa ancestry. I'm not sure if they really have Scot ancestry ; their main white ancestry is French Canadian, with some Irish, though many of the latter were already assimilated to the French Canadians and were of mixed Irish-French Canadian blood.

I think qualifying the Metis of Natives or not is a matter of definition, not of PC. If you consider any nation with European blood or heritage in whatever cultural aspect you want, then the Metis are not Natives, but neither are the Mohawks, the Abenakis, the Cree, etc. If you want to measure the quantity of European blood or culture within the Metis nation and arbitrarily fix a percentage over which the nation should not be considered Native, it's your right, but it would be quite ridiculous. Taking this logic to its extreme, you would then have to say that a child of a Mohawk and a white is not a Native, but his/her children might be if he/she has these children with a Native.
Luc-Vartan Baronian - 1997-12-19

Bien sûr, but that was not at all my point. The fact is that the Metis Nation emerged not before the 17th or 18th ct., as thus cannot be considered as "first". In fact, I suppose that the Metis are one of the last nations to arrive in Canada... (Only maybe just the more recent immigrants like the Ukrainians are latter.) That doesn't mean they are European-like.

I didn't said that, nor I did think it (especially after your interesting explanation!). My point is just chronological, not ethnological.
Antonio Martins - 1997-12-22