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saganash [< Algonk.; cf. Ojibwa shākenāsh]

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

  See also: Shagalasha  

  • 1784  (1790)  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  (1929)  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  (1907)  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. . . .