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Red Knife n. [after Woods Cree miθkohkoma·n, lit. ‘red metal (i.e. copper), red knife’ (second half of the 18th cent. as Mithcocoman), with reference to the copper implements made by this people] now historical and rare a member of a North American Indian people, a regional group of Chipewyan Indians living north of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries, later and more commonly referred to as Yellowknife Indians (cf. also copper-Indian n. at copper n.¹ Compounds 3); frequently attributive.