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Plains Indian, n. and a.
Also 7–9 plain Indian.
[plain n.1 1 b.]
A. n. A member of any of the Indian peoples who formerly inhabited the North American plains; (pl.) these peoples collectively.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to any of these peoples.
1697H. Kelsey Jrnl. 3 July in Kelsey Papers (1929) 88 About four a clock some plain indians arrived att the fort. 1844J. H. Lefroy In Search Magnetic North (1955) xii. 142 The plains Indians are in a state of warfare, and there is a certain degree of danger in a single boat or canoe passing through their country. 1852in Mich. Hist. Mag. (1925) IX. 397 Though the plains Indians frequently go unpunished, that is no reason why our Indians here should be butchered. 1887Jrnls. Senate Canada XXI. App. 53 As to the existing food there is not very much on the plains for the plain Indians. 1913J. London Valley of Moon 438 A lithograph..of a Plains Indian, in paint and feathers. 1917C. Wissler Amer. Indian xiv. 207 (caption) The Plains Indian culture area. 1931Amer. Speech VII. 2 All Nebraska Indians were known as ‘plains Indians’. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory viii. 127 A barely existing..totemic system is made responsible for the animal names of Plains Indian military societies. 1952B. Blackwood in T. K. Penniman Hundred Years of Anthropol. (ed. 2) vi. 421 In contrast to the South-west, the Plains area has until recently attracted very little attention from archæologists, in spite of the fact that Wissler had, as early as 1907, drawn attention to the lateness of the Plains Indian culture as we know it. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. i. 23 With the loss of Camilla he returned to the times before he had known her, among the Zuñi and Mojave, the Plains Indians and the Kwakiutl. 1966Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 2 Apr. (1970) 380 Joe Frantz..began to weave together the story of the place..its history..the tribal Plains Indians..the Spanish conquistadores. 1972D. Davies Dict. Anthropol. 148/2 With the depletion and destruction of the buffalo herds, through over-hunting by Indians and white men like Buffalo Bill, the Plains Indians lost their means of support..and in many places disappeared. 1976Times 25 Sept. 12/8 Among these exhibits are..Plains Indian artifacts. |
