wemistikoshiw

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English

Etymology

From Cree, literally "he has a wooden boat", from ᒥᐢᑎᑯᓯ (mistikosi)/mistikosi (wooden boat).

Noun

wemistikoshiw (plural wemistikoshiw)

  1. (Canada) Among the Cree, a non-Native American person; a white man.
    • 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 6:
      We are crying, looking at one another. A small group of wemistikoshiw gathers and stares at us.
    • 2014, Edmund Metatawabin, Up Ghost River:
      Sister Wesley said we needed the building to protect us from other wemistikoshiw men who live a long way away, who are called the Soviets.