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half home (guard) Indian Fur Trade, Hist.

a half-breed home-guard Indian.
See also: home-guard (Indian) (def. 1)
- 1774 (1934) . . . about Noon 4 Cannoes of half home guard Indians came to the Tent. . . .
- 1774 (1934) . . . this day fitted out the half home Indians for their Returning to the Fort.
- 1780 (1951) [He] informed me of Cumberland House being destroyed airly in the fall by a party of half home-guard Indians.
- 1959 Hearne was little better provided with canoes at the end than at the beginning of his winter at Cumberland, and was most thankful that Jacobs had managed to get some of the "Half-home Indians" at York to build for him.