half faced

1. Showing but half the face; showing the face in 1. Gen. The offspring of parents of different profiles races, though the term is usually confined to the children of one of the white race and a Red Indian. "The French half - breeds at the Red River are a gigantic race."-Wilson: Prehistoric Man , ii. 262. 2. Spec. ( pl .): Two tribes, one at Red River Settlement, chiefly employed in agriculture, the other subsisting by hunting. The rise of independent half-breed tribes is specially interesting, as it is "the first step toward the evolution of a distinct race." Whether more than the initiatory step will be taken seems problematical. Archdeacon Hunter, a Roman Catholic clergyman at Red River, states that though the offspring descended from mixed blood does not fail, it becomes very difficult to determine whether their descendants are whites or half-breeds, so that their absorption is apparently only a question of time. IMG:content-0909.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0910.png:[blocks in formation]