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

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 Lang, Andrew

Thus we do not know whether or not the Red Indian version is borrowed from the European myth, probably enough it is not.

From The Book of Romance by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

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 Allen, Grant