Saulteaux

[ soh-toh ]

noun,plural Saul·teaux

[soh-tohz; especially collectively -toh] /ˈsoʊ toʊz; especially collectively -toʊ/ for 1.

a member of one of the First Nations of Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, a division of the Ojibwe peoples.
the language of the Saulteaux, a dialect of Ojibwemowin, and one of the languages in the Algonquian language family.

adjective

Origin of Saulteaux

First recorded in 1840–45; French; irregularly formed from Sault Ste. Marie

Peguis, the Saulteaux chief, befriended the white man from the beginning.
The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists | George Bryce
His success had been very marked, and the old Saulteaux rejoiced that he and the rest of them were to be neglected no longer.
By Canoe and Dog-Train | Egerton Ryerson Young
She had heard from some fur-hunters about our having come to live in the land of the Saulteaux.
On the Indian Trail | Egerton Ryerson Young
Was not she a Saulteaux, and had not she a right to know of this new way, about which so much was being said?
By Canoe and Dog-Train | Egerton Ryerson Young
Two Saulteaux chiefs, with about forty warriors of that nation, arrived at the settlement.
The Great Company | Beckles Willson

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