Terms for "white man"

[Patricia Albers]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Dakotas at Spirit Lake used
S'ahiya  for Plains Cree and Plains Ojibwe.  Sagada was used for
people of French/Scotch and Cree, Ojibwe, and Assiniboin backgrounds
--otherwise known as Metis.  Generally, the people who were enrolled
at Turtle Mountain were called Sagada as opposed to Ojibwe at Red
Lake who were known as Hahatonwan.  Cree/Ojibwe in Saskatchewan at
Piapot Reserve were called S'ahiya.   Pat Albers

>Koontz John E wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Mary Marino wrote:
>>
>>>S^ahiya  is current among Canadian Dakota speakers for 'Cree'.  I've never
>>>recorded S^ahiyena.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Wow!  That's fantastic!  Previously I'd only seen it mentioned in old
>>sources as the Assiniboine name for the "Knisteneaux," and in Hidatsa, for
>>example, there is s^ahi' 'Cree'.  In Santee and Teton the usual term is
>>'Rabbit People.'
>>
>Oh nifty! There's a place in central Saskatchewan called
>"Kinistino". I never made the connection before.
>
>And I've seen S^ahiya in my notes from Assiniboine class, but I
>honestly don't remember her saying it. I'm sure it referred to the
>Cree though.
>
>Shannon