Native Americann.adj.

a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1652) x. 125 He had improved that idle Castilian, by imployments,..and authority over those vanquished creatures; suffering the poor native Americans to be supprest with heavy impositiions.

1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times 158 A Native American, sent by a Spaniard, his Master, with a Basket of Figgs, and a Letter..to carry them both to one of his Masters friends.

1699 R. Ferguson Just & Modest Vindic. Scots Design 128 It is upon the Foundation and Basis of the Native Americans, having an Intrinsick and Legal power of receiving Foreigners and Aliens among them,..that all the Plantations of the Europeans..are rendred Lawful and Just in the sight of God and of men.

1721 P. Rose Theorico-Pract. Treat. Plague 14 This Radison went young to Hudson's Bay;..his curious..Mind moved him to go to the Native Americans, he lived with them about twenty Years.

1737 Common Sense (1738) I. 280 As to his Birth and Parentage, I cannot say whether he is a Native American or a Creole, nor is it material.

1775 D. Fenning Royal Eng. Dict. at Peru Peru is inhabited by the Spaniards, who conquered it, and the native Americans.

1796 R. Bage Hermsprong II. iii. 21 Of this disease, with which you are here so terribly afflicted, the native Americans know nothing.

1822 J. Neal Logan I. ii. 9 The swarthy and deep, in tinctured hue of the native American had yielded to the hearty brown of the sturdy white settler.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 20 The tribe of people, termed..Cafusos..are known to have sprung originally from a mixture of native Americans with the Negroes imported from Africa.

1895 Munsey's Mag. Sept. 566/1 The native American killed his deer and made his camp fires here.

1947 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 27 69 The closest he would come to the native Americans would be in his capacity as pastor in charge of the little chapel.

1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 16- c/1 ‘It's a hidden attack by commercial interests on native Americans,’ said Mrs. Waunetta Dominic, chairwoman of the Northern Michigan Ottawa Association in Petoskey.

2000 High Country News July–Aug. 43/2 Investigators have identified five distinct mitochondrial lineages..in modern Native Americans.

1844 Republican Sentinel (Richmond, Va.) 13 July 3/5 The riot was caused by a branch of the Native Americans—‘the very dregs of society, bent upon..the annihilation of the Roman Catholics’.

1886 B. P. Poore Perley's Reminisc. I. 500 The Native Americans and the Republicans flattered themselves that the Democratic party had been reduced to a mere association of men.

1911 Federal Immigration Legislation ii. 12 in Rep. Immigration Comm. (U.S. Congr.) As a consequence of the sudden and great increase of foreign immigration..between 1848 and 1850, the old dread of the foreigner was revived, and in the early fifties the Native Americans again became active.

1952 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 18 548 Few other students of the Native American movement could be found who would agree with his judgment.

1978 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 64 959 In no other northern state did the Native American or Know-Nothing party achieve such phenomenal, if short-lived, success as in Massachusetts.

1994 T. Anbinder Nativism & Slavery iii. 59 The Native Americans were the surviving remnant of the Pennsylvania American Republican party of the 1840s. Unlike the Know Nothings, the Native Americans operated as an open political party.

1793 C. Smith Old Manor House III. xii. 287 His surprise and curiosity were not less awakened by the appearance of the native American auxiliaries who had been called to the aid of the English.

1849 G. Warburton Conquest of Canada 384 Their hosts called themselves Illinois... Marquette considered them the most civilised of the native American nations.

1900 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 30 44 There is no satisfactory denotive term in use to designate the native American tribes.

1973 Black Panther 7 Apr. 4/1 Appearing at the awards in Brando's behalf was the beautiful, gracious, and now famous Native American woman, Sacheen Littlefeather, who, dressed in the traditional garments of her people, read a prepared statement.

1991 Newsweek 2 Dec. 14/1 Portraying Columbus's discovery of the New World as a land-grabbing free-for-all of genocide and ecocide that ended Native American culture.

2010 H. Bloom in Native Amer. Writers (new ed.) Introd. 3 The polarities of the Ghost-Dance songs are part of the heritage of modern Native American literature.

1835 Niles' Weekly Reg. 7 Nov. 165/1 Mean time the association of native American democrats assembled at the Howard House, and agreed upon the following ticket for assembly.

1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 25 Apr. 2/1 There is a party in New York called the Native American Party—few in numbers, but indomitable in resolution.

1845 Congress. Globe 18 Dec. 43 This Native American Party had been generated by the corruptions of our great cities.

1911 Federal Immigration Legislation ii. 9 in Rep. Immigration Comm. (U.S. Congr.) In 1841 a state convention was called. It was at this convention that the Native American Party, under the name of the American Republican Party, was established.

1938 H. Asbury Sucker's Progress 363 Besides his interest in a meat stall, Poole owned a saloon, and was the leader of the rougher element of the Native American or Know Nothing Party.

1995 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 61 702 In New York City's municipal election, the Native American party trounced Van Buren candidates.

1918 Articles of Incorporation 10 Oct. in J. S. Slotkin Peyote Relig. (1958) 137 (note) It is the purpose of this organization to establish one central body to be known as the Central Council of the Native American Church.

1919 Daily Oklahoman 27 Apr. B2/1 He would erect this church so his brothers and sisters of the native American church might come and worship their Creator... The native American church is chartered under the laws of the state of Oklahoma.

1976 J. E. Weems Death Song xxiv. 260 His religion eventually went into establishment of the Native American Church, which utilized peyote buttons in worship.

1993 Sante Fe Jrnl. (New Mexico) Reporter 3 Feb. 19/1 Like more than 300,000 other people from 70 tribes, Wood is a member of the Native American Church, which uses peyote, an illegal drug, in its sacred ceremonies.

1956 A. Huxley Let. 20 Oct. (1969) 809 Thank you for your most interesting letter about the Native American churchmen.

1981 H. W. Bowden Amer. Indians & Christian Missions (1985) vii. 214 It may yet be possible for Native American churchmen to display their distinctive liturgy alongside other Christian expressions.