stick Indian

Pacific Coast, Slang, Derog.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a native from the backwoods; an Indian ignorant of city ways.

Quotations

1954

"Talk about your stick Indian." "You said that before. What's it mean, stick Indian?" "Straight out of the bush. Hillbilly. Get it ?"

1954

Instead he looked wooden-faced and scared . . . like some stick Indian.

1956

To him they were not "characters" or stick Indians, or any of the slighting things that Belile and others of his kind called them.