Amerindianize

present singular third person Amerindianizes · participle present Amerindianizing · participle past Amerindianized · past Amerindianized

1. transitiveTo make Amerindian.

   Their strong wind seems anglicized when compared to Asturias's Amerindianized one.

   1992, Louise Fiber Luce, The Spanish-speaking world: an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives

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   Amerindianizing the Image of the School Early in the 1970s the Quebec office of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development established a training program for Indian teachers called the Amerindianization of the Schools […]

   1985, Barbara Burnaby, Promoting Native Writing Systems in Canada, number 24, page 21

   The challenge for Indians, he says, is to “Amerindianize” (as he puts it) our technological society […]

   2005, Ute Lischke, Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations, page 129

   In turn, the Amerindianizing of his Spanish heritage (through his mother's mixed background) carries “vestiges of Trinidad's original, 'authentic,' and somewhat romanticized past, in the form of aboriginal blood.

   2007, Jocelyne Guilbault, Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics, page 125