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Missisauga|mɪsɪˈsɔːgə|
Also Messasague, Messisauger, Missasago, Missasauga, Missis(s)a(u)ga(h), Mississagua, etc.
[Ojibwa, lit. ‘people of the Mississagi River’ (in Ontario).]
1. An Algonquian Indian people; a member of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1703tr. Lahontan's New Voy. N.-Amer. I. xxv. 230 A list of the savage nations of Canada... The Missisagues. 1749G. Clinton Let. 3 June in E. B. O'Callaghan Docs. rel. Colonial Hist. New-York (1855) VI. 486 To meet the Misissaque Indians at Oswego. 1772in 14th Rep. R. Comm. Hist. Manuscripts App. X. 85 in Parl. Papers 1895 (C. 7883) LIX. 1 The Chippawaes and Mississagaes are by far the most numerous and powerful nation with whom we have any connection in North America. 1798B. S. Barton New Views Origin of Tribes & Nations N. Amer. (ed. 2) App. 4 The Messisaugers, or Messasagues. The language of these Indians is, undoubtedly, very nearly allied to that of the Chippewas. 1831A. S. Withers Chron. Border Warfare 299 Their force consisted of four thousand warriors, and was led on by a Missasago chief. 1838A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada I. 16 One solitary wigwam.., the dwelling of a few Missassagua Indians. Ibid. 296 The scene of bloody conflicts between the Hurons and the Missassaguas. 1888Jrnl. Amer. Folklore I. 151 (heading) Notes on the history, customs, and beliefs of the Mississagua Indians. Ibid. 152 These are the most advanced in civilization of the Mississaguas. 1948Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. Spring 100 These people, particularly the Missasaugas, seem to have occupied the southern end of the Park a century ago. 1960D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 5) iv. 40 The cultivation of maize had spread..to some adjacent Algonkian tribes,..the Missisauga on the north shore of lake Huron. Ibid. xvii. 282 Many Missisauga moved into the old territory of the Hurons between lakes Huron and Erie.
2. = massasauga.
1843W. Oliver Eight Months Illinois 150 The inhabitants recognize two kinds of rattlesnakes, to wit, the wood- and the prairie-rattlesnake, or mississauga, of which the latter is much the smaller and less dangerous. 1961Listener 16 Nov. 826/1 A mississaga rattler I once knifed. |