wemistikoshiw

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.