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

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 Kipling, Rudyard

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 Gosse, Edmund

A party of furriers met three natives—two male, one female—on the frozen Red Indian Lake.

From The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of