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Sarcee, a. and n.|ˈsɑːsiː|
Also † Sursee, Sussee, Sarsee, Sarsi.
[ad. Blackfoot saaxsííwa; 18th-c. forms ad. Cree sasīw, pl. sasīwak.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Sarcee or their language (see below).
B. n.
a. An Athapaskan people of Alberta in Canada; a member of this people.
b. Their language.
[1772M. Cocking Jrnl. 1 Dec. in Trans. R. Soc. Canada (1909) II. ii. 111 There are 4 Tribes, or Nations, more, which are all Equestrians Indians, Viz... Pegonow or Muddy-water Indians & Sassewuck or Woody Country Indians.] 1790E. Umfreville Present State of Hudson's Bay i. 78 Those Indians from whom the Peltries are obtained are known to us by the following names, viz. The Ne-heth-aw-a Indians. The Assinne-poetuc Indians. The Fall Indians. The Sussee Indians [etc.]. 1801A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal p. lxxi, The Sarsees, who are but few in number, appear from their language, to come..from the North-Westward, and are of the same people as the Rocky-Mountain Indians. 1820D. W. Harmon Jrnl. Voy. & Trav. Interior N. Amer. 313, I have been acquainted with fifteen different tribes of Indians, which are the..Black feet Indians, Blood Indians, Sursees [etc.]. 1904Jrnl. Amer. Folklore July–Sept. 180 (heading) Traditions of the Sarcee Indians. Ibid., The Sarcee Indians of Alberta, N.W.T., Canada, claim to have belonged at one time to the Beaver Indians. 1915Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. XI. iii. 190 The Sarsi are an Athapascan-speaking group of Indians who have been closely associated with the Northern Blackfoot of Alberta. 1919Anthropol. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XVI. iv. 273 The text itself was dictated by Eagle-ribs..a younger son of the head chief of the Natsilt'inna, one of the four Sarsi bands. Ibid., A..running account of the sun dance was recorded as a text in Sarsi. 1921E. Sapir Language 213 The buffalo culture of the Plains (Sarcee). 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 72 The Athabascan family covers all but the coastal fringe of northwestern Canada (Chipewyan, Beaver, Dogrib, Sarsi, etc.). 1936D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies ix. 81 Amongst the Stony and Sarcee Indians there was formerly a vague superstition imposing a sort of taboo on the cougar. 1965Language XLI. 171 Harry Hoijer and Janet Joël, ‘Sarsi nouns’. 1965[see Athapascan, -paskan n. 2]. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 92 Checks, diamonds, and terraced triangles were old patterns among the..Sarcee. 1977T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. 316 The term Mountain..has been applied also to groups speaking Beaver, Chipewyan, Kaska, Sarsi, Slave, Tsetsaut and Yellowknife. |