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

"Not knowing your culture just drives an anger inside you," says Miskonoodinkwe-Smith, who is of Saulteaux descent.

From BBC

Peguis was a Saulteaux chief who arrived in what is now Southern Manitoba in the 1790s.

From Salon

This stood in the center of a large camp of the "Saulteaux" or Ojibway, not far from Fort Alexander, which was about 3 miles above Lake Winnipeg, on the bank of Winnipeg River.

From Project Gutenberg

To this northern group belong the Ojibway north of the lakes, including the Saulteaux, the Wood Cree, the Montagnais and the Naskapi.

From Project Gutenberg

Sauk and Fox, the, 354, 375, 377, and map, pp. 334-5 Saulteaux, the, 375, and map, pp. 334-5 Saxons, the, 449 Sayce, A. H., 236 n.,

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