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Bois-Brûlé is a 19th-century term for a mixed-blood Indigenous person or a Métis person.
Bois-Brûlé [French for "charred wood" or "burnt wood"], a 19th-century term for a mixed-blood Indigenous person or a Métis, especially the descendant of an Indigenous person and a French Canadian. The expression referred to the brownish skin colour of the Métis.
