Indian styleadv.colloquial cross-legged (with reference to a seated person).
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1901 Coll. Minesota Hist. Soc.9 418 They paid no attention to me, but seated themselves, Indian style, on the ground in a circle in front of me, and beat time by striking on the ground with their sticks.
2005 New Yorker 13 June 76/2 She sat Indian style in the center of the shell.