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native ((n.))

• 1 n. an Indian or Eskimo.

  • 1773  (1908)  By marks we find the Natives up the other branch, have not passed downwards yet.
  • 1856  This is the trading-store. It is always recognisable, if natives are in the neighbourhood, by the bevy of red men that cluster round it, awaiting the coming of the store-keeper or the trader. . . .
  • 1951  The company nowadays certainly does give help to the natives, in the form of loans, gifts, and medicine, and it has assumed the responsibility for distributing government relief and family allowances among the Eskimos.
  • 1959  [Heading] Native Housing Employs Many

• 2 n. Obs. a half-breed.

  See also: half-breed  

  • 1857, 1860, 1178  The term "native," distinguishing the half-breeds from the European and Canadian element on the one hand, and the Indian on the other, appears to be desired by many of the better class, who naturally look upon the epithet "half-breed" as applied to a race of Christian men, scarcely appropriate.