Sentence examples for mixed descent from inspiring English sources

The word métis, which means "mixed" in French, can be used of any aboriginal (First Nation) person of mixed descent, but the Métis who are of mixed French and Cree descent are the only speakers of Michif.

Both were of mixed descent, Jewish on the mother's side.

The population is chiefly Tajik, though of mixed descent.

But he added that it was also clear that many Jews are of mixed descent.

Today the greatest proportion of the population is of mixed descent (African, European, and South Asian).

But in outlying areas maltreatment, violence, and the forced removal of children of mixed descent lingered on beyond the 1940s.

A number of those designers seemed to have pointedly embraced diversity: among them Flora Gill and Alexa Adams of Ohne Titel, where 50 percent of the models were black or of mixed ethnic descent; and Gwen Stefani of LAMB, where the figure was 40 percent.

Burghers (a community of mixed European descent), Parsis (immigrants from western India), and Veddas (regarded as the aboriginal inhabitants of the country) total less than 1 percent of the population.

Standing in its leafy courtyard, surrounded by cracked walls, I sip a beer out of a plastic cup as Coquenão – who is of mixed Angolan/Portuguese descent – unravels the tangled history of the city's music scene.

In Uruguay, a nation of largely mixed European descent, local players learned both the physical style played by the English and the more refined passing game of the Scots, producing a versatility that helped their national team win two Olympic championships and the World Cup between 1924 and 1930.

Key's wife, Bronagh (née Dougan) Key, is the daughter of Northern Irish emigrants of mixed religious descent.