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country alliance Hist. 
among fur traders and pioneers, a common-law marriage between a white man and an Indian girl.
See also: country marriage country wife fur-trade marriage
- 1806 (1964) [. . . no man whatsoever . . . belonging to the Concern shall henceforth take or suffer to be taken . . . any woman or maid from any of the tribes of Indians . . . to live with him after the fashion of the North West, that is to say to live with him within the Company Houses or Fort and be maintained at the expence [sic] of the Concern.]
- 1948 He was doing an almost unbelievable thing, not according to Company usage, to terminate an unhappy "country" alliance.
- 1806 (1964) [. . . no man whatsoever . . . belonging to the Concern shall henceforth take or suffer to be taken . . . any woman or maid from any of the tribes of Indians . . . to live with him after the fashion of the North West, that is to say to live with him within the Company Houses or Fort and be maintained at the expence [sic] of the Concern.]