DCHP-3

Hunting Indian

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a Montagnais or Naskapi Indian from the region between Hudson Bay and Labrador coast.

Quotations

1784
Two Men returned with part of the hunting Indians from the Eastward.
1818
There are few tribes of Hunting Indians in Labrador that do not profess the Catholic religion; but the whole of their faith consists in paying a stupid homage to those little pictures of the Crucifixion that are strung about their swarthy necks by the Canadian Missionaries.
1848
Of these the more famous tribes are the Red Indians (now almost extinct), the Hunting Indians, the Mikmaks, and the Esquimaux.