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Saulteaux
[ soh-toh ]
noun
, plural Saul·teaux [soh, -tohz, -toh]
- 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
- of or relating to the Saulteaux or their language.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Saulteaux1
First recorded in 1840–45; French; irregularly formed from Sault Ste. Marie
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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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