Salteaux

British  

/ ˈsəutəu /

noun

1. a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba

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Etymology

Origin of Salteaux

from Ojibwa

Example Sentences

A few hours afterwards we passed a small band of Salteaux encamped farther on; and later in the day overtook a half-breed trader on his way to the Missouri to trade with the Sioux.

From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Butler, William Francis

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 Butler, William Francis

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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 Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)