Métis (English spelling)

Japanese: メティス（英語表記）Métis

Meaning "mixed race" in French. In Canada, it refers to people of indigenous and European descent. Their existence was highlighted in the history of Canada in the late 19th century. In 1869, when Manitoba joined the Canadian Confederation, the Métis of the Red River Colony, centered in Winnipeg, asserted their rights and rebelled under the leadership of L. Riel. They were mainly mixed races of Scottish and indigenous people, and French and indigenous people, and were half-farming, half-hunting people who feared the expansion of agricultural colonies that had different values from their own. As represented by their leader Riel, the French Métis did not want to abandon Catholicism. Riel was again brought to lead a rebellion in Saskatchewan in 1885, but this time it is said that there were more indigenous people than Métis participants. In Canada, where awareness of ethnic minorities is high, there are still many people who define themselves as Métis.

Metis
Mētis

In Greek mythology, Athena was the goddess of wisdom. She was one of the daughters of Oceanus (→Oceanides), and contributed to Zeus' victory by giving him a potion that caused Cronus to vomit out the brothers and sisters he had swallowed, and became the first wife of the king of the gods. However, Cronus and Gaia told Zeus that if he continued with the marriage, he would be deprived of his throne by the son he would bear from Metis. Zeus swallowed Metis, who was already pregnant with a daughter from his seed, and the fetus that was born from the top of Zeus' head was Athena, who inherited the qualities of the goddess of wisdom from her mother. Metis then stayed in Zeus' womb and gave him advice, playing an essential role in his world governance.

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Japanese:

フランス語で「混血」の意。カナダにおいて先住民とヨーロッパ系の人々の子孫をいう。 19世紀後半のカナダ史において，彼らの存在がクローズアップされた。すなわち，1869年マニトバ州がカナダの一州として連邦に加わる際，ウィニペグを中心とするレッドリバー植民地のメティスは，自分たちの権利を主張して，L.リエルを指導者に反乱を起した。彼らは主としてスコットランド人と先住民，フランス人と先住民の混血であり，半農半狩猟民族で自分たちと価値観を異にする農業植民地の拡大を恐れた。また指導者リエルに代表されるように，フランス系のメティスはカトリックを捨てまいとしていた。リエルは 85年サスカチュワンで再び反乱の指導者にかつぎ出されたが，このときの参加者はメティスより先住民が多かったとされる。少数民族の意識の高いカナダでは，現在も自分たちをメティスと規定する人々は少くない。

メティス
Mētis

ギリシア神話の知恵の女神。オケアノスの娘 (→オケアニデス ) の一人で，クロノスが腹の中に飲み込んだ兄弟姉妹を吐き出させる薬を与えるなどして，ゼウスの勝利に貢献し，神々の王の最初の妻になった。しかしクロノスとガイアから，もしこの結婚を続ければメティスの産む息子によって王位を奪われると教えられたゼウスは，すでに彼の種により女児を妊娠していたメティスを飲み込み，そのあとこの胎児がゼウスの頭のてっぺんから出生したのが，知恵の女神の資質を母から受継いだアテナで，メティスは以後ゼウスの腹中にいて彼に助言を与え，その世界統治に不可欠の役割を演じ続けているという。

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