| 单词 | southern indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSouthern Indian Southern Indian n. North American (now historical) a North American Indian of the Cree nation.Originally so named by the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada, to distinguish the Cree from the Chipewyan further north; cf. Northern Indian n. at northern adj., n., and adv. Compounds. ΚΠ 1689 in H. Kelsey Kelsey Papers (1929) 28 His Country people was gone far to ye for fear of ye southern Indians. 1742 C. Middleton in A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay (1744) 192 The Southern Indian, who was Linguist for the Northern ones, returned with the Boat. 1825 J. Richardson in Parry's Jrnl. 2nd Voy. 292 [The wolverine] is termed by the Crees or Southern Indians ommeethatsees and okee-coohawgees. 1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 May 6/5 The Eskimos, northern Indians (the Chipewyans), and southern Indians (the Crees). 2004 M. Derr Dog's Hist. Amer. (2005) v. 102 His observations of the lives and habits of the Chipewyan Indians, whom he calls northern Indians, and the Cree, or southern Indians,..have proved invaluable. < as lemmas |
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