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

Les Natchez, inspired by Chateaubriand's American travels, idealises the life of the Red Indian tribes.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse

The resemblance between Scythian and Red Indian manners exercised the learned in the time of Grotius.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Let us now collect specimens of the evidence for different varieties of cosmogony, ranging from those of the Red Indian tribes to that of the people of Israel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

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

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