This book deals with" metissage "in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. "Metissage "is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the "Metis" people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking "Metis" and English-speaking "Halfbreeds." The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the "Act of Savages" legally distinguished between -Indians- and -Metis-, thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the "longue duree" to show the variance throughout four centuries."