This article examines recent moves to Indigeneity among French-descendant peoples, notably Franco-Quebeckers in Quebec and Acadians in Nova Scotia, and argues that current claims to métissage are deeply rooted in white settler-colonial notions of race and Indigeneity. In examining the evocation of métissage, this article identifies its ubiquity in a variety of documentary forms. In combatting such representations, it first argues that French policy in New France was primarily an attempt at “Frenchification.” In other words, French colonists sought to assimilate Indigenous peoples rather than produce a culturally hybrid society with a deeply Indigenous way of life. With insufficient evidence of a historical métissage at the origins of Quebec and Acadia, the article then analyzes organizational arguments supporting the presence of a distinct “Eastern métis” people.