Red Indian

American  

noun

Older Use: Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian.

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Red Indian British  

noun

1. an old-fashioned name, now considered highly offensive, for Native American

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Etymology

Origin of Red Indian

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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Red Indian

Making the dish even more remarkable is that Mr. Charles shot, skinned and butchered the moose himself just days earlier near Red Indian Lake in central Newfoundland.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2017

Yes, he had read a good deal about our Indian border warfare, and had been much struck with the likeness it bore to Red Indian warfare.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

If they were making a periagua, they left the stern "flat"—that is, cut off sharply without modelling; if they were making a canoa, they pointed both ends, as a Red Indian points his birch-bark.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

So it is nothing more than a most unconventional form of tent, not altogether unlike the wigwam of the Red Indian, or the dwelling of many other nomadic people.

From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper

Tightening his belt, he at once glided down the slope, flitted across the rivulet, skimmed over the open space, and melted into the forest after the most approved method of Red Indian tactics.

From Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne