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

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 The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief by Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)

His relatives were some very heartless people of the Salteaux tribe.

From Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians by Young, Egerton Ryerson

This individual for some reason refused permission to the Salteaux to leave camp.

From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by MacBeth, R. G. (Roderick George)

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

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 Butler, William Francis