What is "palefaces"

Usage examples of "palefaces".

The blow made the bear angry as the Thunder God, and before they could push off shore the bear got his claws on the edge of the canoe, and away they all went sailing into midstream, the palefaces paddling for all their lives, and the black bear clinging on to the canoe.

The palefaces swam back to their camp and their guns, calling out to me over and over to save their canoe for them.

He would sit for hours together in his big tepee counting his piles of furs, smoking, grumbling and storming at the inroads of the palefaces on to his lands and hunting grounds.

Three of the palefaces looked like triplets-two men and a woman-with sad, bespectacled eyes, freckles, and wild, wiry orange hair.