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Red Children Hist. 
1 † n. the Indians of Canada considered as wards of the Crown.
- 1814 Listen. Open your eyes to your Children, to your Red Children that are in the West.
- 1871 She wishes her Red Children, as well as her White people, to be happy and contented.
2 n. the Indians in Rupert's Land considered as wards of the Hudson's Bay Company.
- 1896 Then the whole story would be repeated--how the Company had always looked after its red children and fed them when the fishery failed, how they brought them goods when others could not, and goods of a quality far superior to those of the opposition, which was not going to be in the country another year anyway.
- 1814 Listen. Open your eyes to your Children, to your Red Children that are in the West.