DCHP-3

half-breed scrip millionaire

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who speculated in land-scrip (def. 2), buying at a very low price from the halfbreeds and selling at a handsome profit to settlers.

Quotations

1956
Instead, the operation was a principal factor in creating a class of rich speculators, "the half-breed scrip millionaires," whose fortunes were built upon the dispossession of a group of men who were victims of their own ignorance, their weakness and their ill-adaptation to the new economy.