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2. branch out
4. to describe Métis who spent the winter months hunting and trapping on the Canadian prairies where they built small temporary villages
7. A temporary government
10. An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and blister
11. A trader or merchant
12. Upper Canada, after the Act of Union in 1841
14. The Anglo-Metis people, Orcadian, Scottish, or English fathers and aboriginal mothers
16. A flat cake, made up of barley flour

1. A two wheeled cart used on the prairie
3. Mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food
5. The long-lot pattern of the seigneuries of New France
6. A country that rules itself
8. The policy of Hudson's Bay Company
9. In the nineteenth century, someone who fought for the rights of the underprivileged
11. A person descended from Europeans and First nation people
13. Dictatorial, bossy
15. The name is most frequently associated with French speaking Metis of the Red River Colony