Salteaux
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Salteaux
from Ojibwa
Example Sentences
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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
I well remember how quickly I was deserted by a whole company of Salteaux Indians one spring, on their hearing the long-expected call of a solitary goose that came flying along on the south wind.
From Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young
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
Along too, came the feeble remnant of the once agile Salteaux, inquiring if it was to be war; and if so, would there be big feasts?
From Annette, the Metis Spy by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
Sircies, Peagins, Assineboines, Crees, uskegoes, Salteaux, Chipwayans, Loucheaux, and Dogribs, not including Esquimaux, was not the only cartulary carried by me into the prairies.
From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler
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