DCHP-1 Online
tenas-man [< Chinook Jargon tenas little + E man] Pacific Coast 
n. a youth; boy.
See also: tenas ((adj.))
- 1870 In the crowd behind are a few dusky natives in Boston clothing, while there trip about a few Tenass-men, some with the remains of an old coat and beaver hat, and some [in] almost naked savagedom.
- 1913 August 10, having engaged three Indians and a "tenas man" to help up the . . . rapids, we started for Lake Trembleur.
- 1870 In the crowd behind are a few dusky natives in Boston clothing, while there trip about a few Tenass-men, some with the remains of an old coat and beaver hat, and some [in] almost naked savagedom.