| 单词 | fall indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFall Indian Fall Indian n. now historical a member of an Algonquian people inhabiting areas of Montana and formerly also Saskatchewan; = Gros Ventre n. 2Atsina n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [noun] > Algonquian Piegan1772 Cheyenne1778 Fall Indian1779 Blackfoot1796 Minnetaree1805 Plains Cree1810 Siksika1843 blood1844 Prairie Cree1863 Gros Ventre1868 Wood Cree1885 Wood Cree1910 1779 in Cumberland House Jrnls. (1952) 2nd Ser. 75 At noon Two Tents of fall Indians arrived with a few furrs and some Provisions. 1790 E. Umfreville Present State Hudson's Bay 178 Those Indians from whom the Peltries are obtained are known to us by the following names, viz. The Ne-heth-aw-a Indians. The Assinne-poetuc Indians. The Fall Indians, [etc.]. a1822 J. Richardson Jrnl. in J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea (1823) 108 The Pawäusticeythin-yoowuc, or Fall Indians, so named from their former residence on the falls of the Saskatchawan. They are the Minetarres. 1851 H. R. Schoolcraft Hist. & Statist. Information Indian Tribes U.S. I. viii. 437 This section is redivided into Satsika, Blood Indians, Piekans, and Atsinas, or Fall Indians, who, speaking one generic language, (the Atsina-Algonquin,) constitute the chief known local divisions of the people. 1952 B. DeVoto Course of Empire vi. 202 The Assiniboins were a Plains tribe..beyond them to the west were the Gros Ventres or Fall Indians and the Blackfeet. 1999 J. P. Reid Patterns of Vengeance vii. 113 The Gros Ventres of the Plains, whom the British fur traders sometimes called the Fall Indians, were so closely associated with the Blackfoot, Piegans, and Bloods, that they were often described as a fourth nation of the Blackfoot confederacy. < as lemmas |
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