Hello ROFrocks,

Your time frame is way off and so is your geography. As you will note I was commenting on the Northern Ontario fur trade not the Western Canada fur trade. Furthermore there were no significant numbers of Metis for at least the first 100 years of the fur trade.

As for; " many trappers were white and gradually became Métis" , you have that backwards. All trappers were native at first and as some natives intermarried with non-natives the number of Metis involved in the fur trade increased.

I could give you my references for this or you could google it but I have a feeling you are not interested in facts so I would just be wasting my time. Besides what does this have to do with traditional life style? You are just throwing a "red Herring" into the conversation but just for fun I will bite on it. So in your opinion what is the traditional life style of the Metis you refer to? Is that the one the natives in the ROF want? If not why is metis traditional lifestyle even a subject for discussion?