bad Indian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an untrustworthy Indian, especially one hostile to the whites; a renegade Indian.

Quotations

1791

Among them was an Indian named Ogashy, or the horse: he was reckoned, even by his own tribe, a bad Indian.

1824

I told them . . . that I had seen some bad Indians & had seen them destroyed for bad Indians never lived long.

1963

A few years ago he toured with a circus, one of the "bad Indians" who attacked a stage coach.