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Shagalasha
[< Algonk.;cf. Ojibwa shākanāsh Englishman]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in Indian parlance, a Mounted Policeman.
Quotations
1923
"I thank the Great White Mother and the One Above who rules us all because they have sent to us the Shagalasha, the red-coats, to save us from the bad white man and from ourselves. The Shagalasha are our friends."
1936
. . . Colonel French and his band of red-coated Shagalasha had not yet come riding across the plains from old Fort Garry, bringing order and justice to the North-West Territories.
1953
"If you make enemy of the Shagalasha too, then you will have no place on earth to pitch your tepee."