| 单词 | stick indian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasStick Indian Stick Indian n. Canadian colloquial (now rare) a member of a North American Indian people inhabiting the forests of British Columbia and the Yukon. [After Chinook Jargon stick siwash, used by the inhabitants of the coast to denote those of the interior ( < stick tree ( < English stick n.1) + siwash Siwash n.).] ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun] Slave1789 beaver1801 Carrier1801 Musqueam1808 Nootkian1811 Okanagan1814 Takulli1820 Dogrib1823 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Bella Coola1834 Nootkan1835 Chilkat1836 Nootka1846 Squamish1846 Siwash1847 Kwakiutl1848 Nitinaht1848 Sitkan1848 Sitka1853 Makah1855 Stick Indian1857 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Mattole1864 Tlingit1865 Nisga'a1874 Hoochinoo1878 Nimpkish1885 Tsimshian1888 Gitksan1889 Nuxalk1910 Snohomish1910 Nuu-chah-nulth1983 Ditidaht1988 'Namgis1994 1857 E. C. Fitzhugh Let. 18 June in Rep. Commissioner Indian Affairs 1857 617 In our immediate vicinity, directly interior, we have part of two tribes called the Neuk-wers and Sia-man-mas; these we call Stick Indians. 1885 F. Schwatka Rep. Mil. Reconn. Alaska 1883 76 The so-called ‘Stick’ Indians of the interior are seen in the villages near the trading stores. 1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails vii. 72 Snowshoes are known only as a strange accoutrement of the ‘Stick Indians’. < as lemmas |
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