DCHP-2
Saulteur liquor [< Saulteur Saulteaux, the western branch of the Ojibwa Indians] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See also: Indian liquor
- 1799 (1897) ". . . I gave my two men . . . a 9-gallon keg of Saulteur liquor to each man."
- 1987 Alcohol or "high wine" diluted to suit an Ojibway Indian's stomach, as regarded from a commercial rather than digestive standpoint. Indians already debauched would not stand so much water as fresh tribes could be induced to exchange beaver skins for, and hence a difference in recognized degrees of dilution in different cases. On the Red and Assiniboine rivers, about 1800, it was no uncommon thing for an Indian to give five or six prime beavers for a quart of "Salteur liquor"--a gill or two of alcohol, the rest water.
- 1799 (1897) ". . . I gave my two men . . . a 9-gallon keg of Saulteur liquor to each man."