DCHP-2

bush Indian DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1

  one of a band of Indians living in a forested area as opposed to the prairies.

  • 1887  . . . in these years the Indians are reduced to great distress, the bush Indians depending in the winter time on this food for their existence. . . .
  • 1963  But the Crees . . . were bush Indians and once lived north and east of the plains; but gradually some of them took to the open country. . . .

• 2 — West Coast and North

  an Indian of a region remote from civilization.

  See also: Stick Indian  

  • 1939  These people were bush Indians and did not come to the fort very often.