DCHP-3

post native

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any Indian who lived in or near a fur post, especially those employed as hunters.

See: home-guard (Indian)(def. 1b)

Quotations

1913
[Lamack was counted among the Saulteaux Indians frequenting the post. On the Bay he would have been called one of the "Homeguards," for he never went far from it, and was available for odd trips or work which haughtier, or lazier, hunters would not condescend to perform.]
1955
"Post" natives disregarded and undermined the prestige of the chiefs and elders. . . .