Russian Indian

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an Indian, as a Tlingit, from the territory in Alaska which was long under Russian control.

Quotations

1885

. . . we passed a winter of constant danger from the savage Russian Indians. . . .

1955

In 1836 a party was sent to locate a post on the lake (Dease), but, fearful of the "Russian Indians," the men were seized with panic and fled.