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French Indian 
Hist. an Indian from territory controlled by New France, or one who hunted for and dealt with French-Canadian traders, as opposed to the Hudson's Bay Company.
- 1724 (1965) . . . the French Indians . . . shall be in very great hopes of a good trade next spring. . . .
- 1752 (1852) The contests between the English and French Indians have so depeopled the stocks, that it hardly affords either beaver, or martins, or porcupines, or other family creatures.
- 1912 (1913) French Indians. A term used by early English writers to designate the tribes in the French interest, especially the Abnaki and their congeners on the New England Frontier.
- 1724 (1965) . . . the French Indians . . . shall be in very great hopes of a good trade next spring. . . .