bush Indian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of a band of Indians living in a forested area as opposed to the prairies.

Quotations

1887

. . . in these years the Indians are reduced to great distress, the bush Indians depending in the winter time on this food for their existence. . . .

1963

But the Crees . . . were bush Indians and once lived north and east of the plains; but gradually some of them took to the open country. . . .

2 — West Coast and North

an Indian of a region remote from civilization.

1939

These people were bush Indians and did not come to the fort very often.