DCHP-2

Stick Indian [see note below; cf. stick²] B.C. and Northwest DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

  an Indian from the bush country of the interior, originally so called by the Indians of the Pacific Coast.

  See also: stick ((2))   Stick  stick Indian  

  • In the Chinook Jargon, stick meant anything of wood, from a ship's mast to a forest; hence "Stick" Indians were the forest dwellers as opposed to the people of the coast.