saganash

[< Algonk.; cf. Ojibwa shākenāsh]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Indian parlance, a white man, especially an Englishman, or Britisher. Also spelled saganaw, saganosh, sag(g)inosh, sagonosh.

Quotations

1784

The old man . . . affected much regard for me as being a Sagonosh. . . .

1791

. . . the young warrior . . . wished . . . to praise the goodness of the Saggonash.

1832

The great chief of the Ottawas knows that the great father of the Saganaws has a big heart to make presents to the red-skins.

1863

Two of these gentry . . . were very particular in their enquiries as to what hay was owned by "Saganash" (the English).

1904

I know the language of the saganash.

1935

[They were] cheered with ammunition, calico and tea and assurances of friendship from the White Chief of the Saganosh. . . .