1815  (1910 [1909])  You will be poor and miserable if the English stay. But we will drive them away, if the Indian does not, for the "Nor'-West" Company and the Bois-brulés are one.
1890  Bois-brules is explained by referring to the maternal dialect of a large proportion of half-breeds. In the Chippewa [Ojibwa] tongue they are "men partly burnt," i.e. tinged with Indian blood, but not quite burned into the coppery complexion.
1960  . . . the result of the Bay proclamations was to provoke civil disobedience on the part of the boisbrules and active opposition by the Nor'westers. . . .