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

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

Prince Paul first won recognition with an equestrian statue�a Red Indian modeled from a "Buffalo Bill" Cody Wild West Show in Milan in 1894.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the depths of the same forest, and not far from the locality to which we have introduced our reader, a Red Indian was dragging his limbs wearily along over the untrodden snow.

From Silver Lake by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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 Masefield, John

Now he only picked up a great many old fairy tales, told in French, German, Greek, Chinese, Red Indian, Russian, and other languages, and had them translated and printed, with pictures.

From Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" by Lang, Andrew