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- noun (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
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Examples
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"Why, this is what they call Injun picture writing," replied Red, obligingly.
Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas
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Just lovely that some racist jerk can use the word Injun and not get corrected.
Joy v Glamour: Russian Beyonce Face-off Cosmo7 2009
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"Sure, you'll get it back," said Whitey, and without a word Injun took off the shirt and handed it to Whitey.
Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart
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Thayer ye got Lowbelier, that some calls Injun tobaccer.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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But la, old Ketury could say the Lord's Prayer in Injun, cause I 've heard her; though she would n't say it when she did n't want to and she would say it when she did, – jest as the fit took her.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Christmas had come, and the drinking element in Carter's Camp proposed that Pete Shivershee -- the "Injun" -- be sent to town for a quantity of the liquid poison, that the drinkers might "enjoy" themselves.
A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1892
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"Hereafter the Injun will be a brother to the snake."
In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904
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The book is filled with rich anecdotes about his time as a musician, heading a band called Batesession, playing rural bars before transforming into an outfit called Injun Joe's Medicine Show.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Tom Hawthorn 2010
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It was something to know that, after all, Susie was "Injun" -- "pure
'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916
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I can see a Times guy, on the phone, calling up his list of "Injun" contacts- and gets AIM, and thereby gets Clyde Bellecourt who responds with the obligatory condescension but gives his brother's contact.
As spring comes, so do the rampages Mumon 2005
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