DCHP-1 Online

treaty Indian

• an Indian who is in receipt of treaty money or who adheres to a treaty (def. la).

  See also: enfranchised  non-treaty Indian  out of treaty  registered Indian  treaty (def. 1a, 4)  treaty money  

  • 1881  The best wheat that has been brought to mill this season was raised at White Fish Lake by treaty Indians.
  • 1923  The dogs brought in by the treaty Indians were in a terrible condition--the extreme of emaciation in many harrowing instances.
  • 1957  Being a Canadian treaty Indian I am not eligible to vote but, if I could, I'd be proud to vote Conservative.
  • 1965  Paul Mocassin [is] a treaty Indian from the Cochin Reserve. . . .