Terms for "white man"

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Mar 17 16:31:32 UTC 2004


On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Shannon West wrote:
> >Wow!  That's fantastic!  Previously I'd only seen it mentioned in old
> >sources as the Assiniboine name for the "Knisteneaux," ...
> Oh nifty! There's a place in central Saskatchewan called "Kinistino". I never
> made the connection before.

You also see things on the order of Cristeneaux wandering toward
Christianeaux.  I'm not sure what the origin of the term is.



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