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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a Cree Indian from the vicinity of the fur posts on Hudson Bay.

See: home-guard (Indian)(def. 2),Shore Indian

Quotations

1690

Nor none of those home Indians did I see / Untill that they their murder all had done.

1723

. . . the Last night 2 of our home Inds came here with their families. . . .

1932

Knight made a feast for the "Home" Indians, the Crees of the neighbourhood of York Factory, and proposed that they should arrange a peace with their northern neighbours.

1952

When the Home Indians came into the Fort with their furs, he listened to every word of the strange musical Arabeck tongue spoken around Hudson's Bay. . . .