单词 | red children |
释义 | > as lemmasred children red children n. now historical and offensive (a descriptive term applied to) North American Indians (frequently with possessive adjective).An expression of the fictive kinship terminology widely used in diplomatic relations by Indians of Eastern North America, according to which European monarchs and the President of the United States (and in some cases their official representatives) were fathers and the Indian nations children, but sometimes cited as emblematic of supposed condescension or paternalism (compare quots. 1792 and 2002). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > under white guardianship red children1792 1792 Mass. Mag. Sept. 574/2 He was so fond of being thought their patron and protector, that he usually spoke of them as his red children, from the colour of their hides. 1801 B. Hawkins Let. 4 Sept. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 379 Your father is desirous that his red children would consent to establish houses of entertainment and ferries on these roads. 1813 Tecumseh in Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 13 Nov. The war before this, our British father gave the hatchet to his red children, when our old chiefs were alive. 1826 Oshkosh et al. in Wisconsin Hist. Coll. (1900) XV. 16 Our Great Father the President of the United States, has, for the benefit of his red children of the Menominie Nation directed, that a Grist and saw mill, be erected in our neighborhood. 1871 Weekly Manitoban 5 Aug. 2/4 She [sc. Queen Victoria] wishes her Red children, as well as her White people, to be happy and contented. 1954 Mil. Affairs 18 87/1 I told them..that I had come as a representative from the Great Father, at Washington,..and that he meant well with his red children. 2002 Amer. Indian Q. 26 613 Since the dawn of first ‘contact’ Euramericans have set about stereotyping and making complete, civilized, educated, and Christian the ‘red children’ of Native America. < as lemmas |
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