How the Michif Came to Be with Vincent Grant Sr.

Some of the fur traders would get together to have six seven eight nine or ten of them or whatever we get in a group and now trap and hunt together some of them a little more only one or two they get smaller groups together and Deuter trapping and hunting like that and some of them were creators would actually get to some of these local areas would have natives were and in order to get hunting and trapping privileges on their lands they would marry into the tribe and it was not always a one-sided thing a lot of the native women that were married it to the first poppers were treated very well they were all did by him all kinds of gifts clothing cloth whatever else beads and whatever else and it always took really good care of them so it was not kind of once anything a lot of it went married into the tribes to get permission to trap that land and hunt that lab so what’s kind of a two-way street and so that’s I think a lot of us were a lot of our blood came from some node west area for trade and stuff in now recently I’ve got people telling me now that we’re always saying while we’re french-canadian and a lot of them are saying you know we’re going through that incest which go tear up DNA they’re checking that out and they said ah we got more Scot bloodiness we do have French we do have a lot of French but we just got and everything else fixed in there too so that’s kind of where this all came from mainly came from the north northeast us and of course the people that were here before