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I admittedly know very little about the history but the descriptions here don't seem to me entirely consistent with what I know. Specifically I have read bois-brûlés used as a term to refer to the Red-River Métis who were largely descended from the Cree/Ojibwe and the French, but not the Dakota (though I am sure some Dakota blood got in there eventually). The Riel Rebellion certainly was a result of this group. My understanding is that bois-brûlés was used at times to refer to other groups as well but it seems a stretch to say it is primarily refering to Dakota mixed bloods.

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--Mcorazao (talk) 16:33, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are right. The metis were of Red River were mainly of Saulteaux or Cree and French, English, Scot descent....Kayoty 07:55, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

There may have been some bois-brûlés (metis) around Fort Pierre, South Dakota who joined or formed a First Nations group in the United States.

"Father De Smet frequently visited Fort Pierre in the Dakotas, which was the trade center of a Metis band that had become part of the Yankton Sioux tribe." (Chittenden and Richardson, 1905) [1]

Fort Pierre is near the Lower Brulé Indian Reservation.....Kayoty 07:09, 14 February 2014 (UTC)