blood brother

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among Indians, one who has gone through a ceremony of mixing blood with another person and is therefore considered his brother.

Quotations

1919

I know Standing Bear; he made me a blood brother of his.

1954

Henry hid under a pile of hides, and even with the help of a blood brother Indian barely escaped scalping.