DCHP-1 Online
bush Indian 
1 one of a band of Indians living in a forested area as opposed to the prairies.
- 1887 . . . in these years the Indians are reduced to great distress, the bush Indians depending in the winter time on this food for their existence. . . .
- 1963 But the Crees . . . were bush Indians and once lived north and east of the plains; but gradually some of them took to the open country. . . .
2 West Coast and North an Indian of a region remote from civilization.
- 1887 . . . in these years the Indians are reduced to great distress, the bush Indians depending in the winter time on this food for their existence. . . .