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 by Lang, Andrew

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

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

That vivacious youth, breaking through all the customs and peculiarities of Red Indian etiquette, frequently during the journey came and talked with Moonlight, and seemed to take special pleasure in amusing Skipping Rabbit.

From The Prairie Chief by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Judging from the analogy of Eleusis, the Bora, the Red Indian initiations, and so on, we may expect this to be the belief; but Mr. Macdonald knows very little about the matter.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew