DCHP-3

brother

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

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

Quotations

1922
I myself had a "brother" among the Blood Indians, another among the Sarcee, and a son among the Sarcees.