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Montagnais, n. and a.|mɔ̃taɲe|
Also Montagnois, Mountaine(e)r, Mountainier.
[a. F. montagnais mountaineer; hence, member of a mountain tribe.]
A. n. An Algonquian Indian people of eastern Canada; a member of this people; also, their language.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1625Purchas Pilgrimes IV. viii. vi. 1607 They were three Nations when they went to war; the Estechemins, Algoumequins, and Mountainers. 1703tr. Lahontan's New Voy. N.-America I. 207 He deals with the other Savage Nations, namely, the Montagnois, and the Papipanachois in Arms and Ammunition. 1792G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. Explanation of frontispiece, His jacket.., sash, and rackets are Mountaineer. 1800Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. VI. 16 The ensuing vocabulary I transcribed viva voce from Gabriel, a young Mountaineer Indian. Ibid. 17 There is evidently a great resemblance between the Skoffie and Mountaineer. 1863H. Y. Hind Explor. Labrador Peninsula II. xxvii. 101 The Nasquapees, like their friends and allies the Montagnais, hate the Esquimaux. 189411th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1889–90 267 The Indians of the Ungava district are locally known as Naskopie, a term of reproach applied to them by the mountaineers (the Montagnais of the early Jesuit missionaries). 1916Trans. R. Soc. Canada X. i. 314 It..is possibly a transition between the Ojibwa and Montagnais snowshoe. 1933[see Cree n. and a.]. 1934D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 2) xviii. 271 The Montagnais country was a well-wooded area abounding in moose. 1941Beaver Mar. 27 The Montagnais shoe is the commonest form used throughout the Labrador Peninsula. 1966C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Map of N. Amer. Indian Lang. (caption) Algonquian Family. 1. Cree—Montagnais—Naskapi. 1973Howat & Taylor Dict. World Hist. 1013/1 Montagnais Indians, group of Canadian Algonquian tribes, discovered (1603) at the mouth of the Saguenay by Champlain, who enlisted them in an expedition (1609) against the Iroquois. |