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Northern Indian
Northern Indian n. North American (now historical) a North American Indian of the Chipewyan nation.Originally so named by the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada, to distinguish the Chipewyan from the Cree further south; cf. Southern Indian n. at southern adj. and n.1 Compounds 2.
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1689 in H. Kelsey Kelsey Papers (1929) 26 Found an old Canoe of these northern Indians.
1744 A. Dobbs Acct. Countries adjoining Hudson's Bay 17 Several Northern Indians came to trade.
1823 Monthly Rev. Sept. 12 The Chipewyan, or Northern Indians, who resort to the settlements, are reserved.
1898 Trans. Canad. Inst. 5 188 The attire of the Northern Indians was made of Cariboo skin, ornamented with its hair.
1974 C. S. Houston in R. Hood To Arctic by Canoe 71 Since the earliest days of trading at York Factory and Churchill, ‘Southern Indians’ had been a synonym for the Crees and ‘Northern Indians’ a synonym for the Chipewyans.
2006 R. Jarvenpa & H. J. Brumbach Circumpolar Lives & Livelihood ii. 27 The Chipewyan, or ‘Northern Indians’, as traders called them, were oriented toward caribou hunting in the forest-tundra transition.
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