Saulteaux

[ soh-toh ]

noun

, plural Saul·teaux [soh, -tohz, -toh]

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

adjective

1. of or relating to the Saulteaux or their language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Saulteaux¹

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

Example Sentences

Peguis, the Saulteaux chief, befriended the white man from the beginning.

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His success had been very marked, and the old Saulteaux rejoiced that he and the rest of them were to be neglected no longer.

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She had heard from some fur-hunters about our having come to live in the land of the Saulteaux.

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Was not she a Saulteaux, and had not she a right to know of this new way, about which so much was being said?

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Two Saulteaux chiefs, with about forty warriors of that nation, arrived at the settlement.

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