单词 | half-breed reservation |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-breed reservation U.S. As a modifier, designating an area of land allocated by the U.S. government to people of mixed white and North American Indian descent, as half-breed reservation, half-breed tract, etc. Now historical (and likely to be considered offensive). ΚΠ 1832 Amer. & Commerc. Advertiser (Baltimore) 5 Nov. The Half-breed Country. 1855 in S. A. Douglas Senate Rep. (1856) 12 Mar. 18 Your purchase of Kansas half-breed lands. 1925 Minnesota Hist. 6 228 The small half-breed settlement of Pembina on the Red River. 2016 G. Olson Ioway Life i. 14 Several mixed-race Ioways eventually moved to the Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation. < as lemmas |
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