DCHP-3

Indian hunter

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

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a hunter, usually an Indian, employed by a fur company to provide meat for a fort.

Quotations

1824
From thence the Horses should cross over to the Athabasca Portage in charge of 2 Horsekeepers and an Indian hunter, there to remain until Fall.
1884
In the spring the H.B. Co. used to send a party of Indian hunters and several white men to the northern side of the Hudson's Bay, where the Indians would shoot the geese and the white men salt them in barrels.
<i>c</i>1902
A case is on record at Moose Factory, on James Bay, of an Indian hunter and his wife who were literally brought to the verge of starvation by a wolverine that nightly destroyed their traps.