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

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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

Well, it is clearly an absurd mistake to suppose that Columbus discovered America; as Artemus Ward pertinently remarked, the noble Red Indian had obviously discovered it long before him.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

But the trees constantly afford unexpected pleasure; you wander among the timber of the world, now under the shadow of the trees which the Red Indian haunts, now by those which grow on Himalayan slopes.

From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies

A not unnatural theory of the Origin of Death is illustrated by a myth from Pentecost Island and a Red Indian myth. 

From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang

This ‘taboo’ is found in Japanese, Melanesian, and Red Indian accounts of the homes of the dead. 

From Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

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