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

These rites cannot well be reported here, but they are quite familiar to Red Indian and to Bushman magic.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

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

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

To West we owe an attempt to depict scenes from Scripture, and a bold stand against the ridiculous fashion which represented any warrior, even a Red Indian, attired as a soldier of ancient Rome.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler

This is economics in the style of Tamerlane and the Red Indian, and, happily, has no relation to the real facts of modern commercial intercourse.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell