Indigenous–settler relations in Canada have a long and complex history, running the gamut from visions of treaty-based coexistence to fantasies of Indigenous disappearance to imaginings of uncomplicated cultural and political unification via intermarriage. Among the earliest European colonists, Samuel de Champlain famously told his Indigenous allies in May 1633, “Our young men will marry your daughters, and we shall become one people.” But the degree to which this vision of cultural unification typified colonial settlement is often overstated. While postcontact Indigenous peoples later came into being, such as the Métis Nation on the northern prairies or the NunatuKavut in Labrador, they exist not as societies unified with settlers through extensive intermarriage but as Indigenous peoples who have borne the brunt of colonial displacement, marginalization, and expropriation. Even without substantial evidence of the political and cultural unification of white settler populations and Indigenous peoples envisioned by Champlain, the “evocation of métissage” holds particular cultural currency among French-speaking and French-descendant populations in North America. Many of these French-speaking people, however, now imagine this cultural unification as establishing their place as founding settler-people, descended both culturally and politically from the Indigenous nations of the past. Such a move poses an easy solution to the cultural displacement that is a long-standing insecurity of white settler national consciousness and reimagines settler-colonial projects as Indigenous ones. In response, this article examines recent moves to Indigeneity among French-descendant peoples, notably French-Quebecois in Quebec and Acadians in Nova Scotia, and argues that current claims to métissage are deeply rooted in 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 about the Métisness of French-speaking populations in what is now Eastern Canada.