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good Indian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an Indian friendly to the whites; a peaceful Indian.

Quotations

1791

It is true the Master of Life has sent me here to those Indians whose hearts are full of poisoned blood, and as they mean to change my climate, I shall go with courage to a better trading ground, where I shall find good Indians.

1860

Peguis was always a good Indian--the best that was ever known in the colony.

1926

At this juncture William McKay, a Hudson's Bay man . . . rode amongst the still excited crowd and brought up to the shack Indian after Indian whom McKay vouched for as "good Indians" and to whom bags of flour and sides of bacon were dished out by Crozier's orders.

1966

They were good Indians . . . and . . . they had adjusted to the white man's rigid laws remarkably well. . . .

1967

But at least Charlie Wenjack died an Indian--not a slavish, obsequious, pandering, "good" Indian.