hunting ground(s)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a region frequented by Indians in search of game and furs.

Quotations

1773

The Pedlars increase all over the Country, and Actually drove one of Your Eastmain Indians off his hunting ground, after taking away his hatchets.

1812

This is because Red-Men have been fools and given up their hunting grounds.

1965

Comparatively few [Indians] landed jobs with the industrial firms that invaded their hunting grounds.