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non-ˈtreaty N. Amer.
[non- 4.]
Used attrib. or absol. to designate an American Indian who is not subject to a treaty made with the Government.
1878Saskatchewan Herald (Battleford) 18 Nov. 2/2 The non-treaty Indians invade them. 1885J. L. Onderdonk Idaho 15 Councils were held at Lapwai to apportion lands to the various chiefs of the Non-treaties. 1945Beaver Mar. 12/1 Some four hundred Chipewyans and one hundred Crees, the latter being mixed treaties and non-treaties. 1956C. Relander Drummers & Dreamers 121 The intruders occupied the scurfy land along the Columbia where the non-treaty people lived. 1964W. Duff Indian Hist. Brit. Columbia I. 70 The generalization, often heard, that the Indians of British Columbia are ‘non-treaty’ Indians is not wholly true. |