Salteaux
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Salteaux
from Ojibwa
Example Sentences
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The aboriginal inhabitants of the country lying between Red River and the Rocky Monntains are divided into tribes of Salteaux, Swampies, Crees, Assineboines, or Stonies of the Plains, Blackfeet and Assineboines of the Mountains.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler
His relatives were some very heartless people of the Salteaux tribe.
From Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young
Some are called Crees, others Ojibways or Salteaux, and these are constantly at war with the Sioux to the south, chiefly found across the United States boundary.
From The Grateful Indian And other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston
After traversing the lake, they were hailed by the warriors of the Salteaux, a band of about a hundred, the fighting men of a tribe of five hundred.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
Three or four years before, a party of Salteaux, much pressed for hunger, were anxious to reach one of their fishing stations, an island about twenty miles from the shore.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
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