Le Sanglais

[Anthony Grant]

No they didn't.  They derive from French 'les anglais', whch was
modified with the addtion of the Ojibwa pejorative -sha (according to
Ives Goddard).  The term occurs in a number of Algonquian and Siouan
languages, and indeed I gave a paper on this very topic, entitled
'French, British and Indian', (in my pre-Microsoft days) at a SSILA
meeting at Alberquerque in summer 1995.

Anthony Grant

>>> lcumberl at indiana.edu 04/11/2003 16:56:04 >>>
I have often wondered if these terms didn't derive from some variant of
sassenax
or saghenax (I'm not sure of the exact form), which was a Scottish
derogatory
term for the British.

Linda

Quoting Louis Garcia <Louis_Garcia at littlehoop.cc>:

>
>
> Hi Gang:
> I thought I would interject my two cents here.
> The Dakota here at Ft. Totten use the term sahda, sometimes sahdas'a
for the
> Metis.
> The Nakota (I know there are problems using this term) here say
sagkda.
> Years ago when most of the old timers who had gone to school with the
Metis
> were still alive, they hated the metis guts because they were
punished more
> than the Metis. They really drew out the pronunciation in contempt.
> Thankfully this animosity has changed, and everyone jokes with each
other.
> Years ago I asked James H. Howard about these terms and he said the
term was
> from Gaelic, learned from the British soldiers during the French and
Indian
> wars through the War of 1812.
> Was he correct?
> Later,
> LouieG
>
>
>