Red Man

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†

erroneously, any North American Indian.

See: Red Indian(def. 2 and note)

Quotations

1840

. . . when they saw themselves outnumbered by the Red-men, they retired. . . .

1965

The Red Men, believing that the creature was "Matchi Manitou" --the evil spirit--slew it and its blood flowed into the lakes, dyeing the water red.

2 — Hist.

a member of the Beothuk people, a now-extinct race inhabiting Newfoundland during the early settlement period.

See: Red Indian(def. 1)

1955

They [Beothucks] were described as of ordinary height--yet there are recorded instances of giant Red Men of seven feet in stature.