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country alliance
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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among fur traders and pioneers, a common-law marriage between a white man and an Indian girl.
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1806
[. . . no man whatsoever . . . belonging to the Concern shall henceforth take or suffer to be taken . . . any woman or maid from any of the tribes of Indians . . . to live with him after the fashion of the North West, that is to say to live with him within the Company Houses or Fort and be maintained at the expence [sic] of the Concern.]
1948
He was doing an almost unbelievable thing, not according to Company usage, to terminate an unhappy "country" alliance.