injun

plural injuns · alternative Injin · alternative Injun

1. USoffensiveslangA Native American.

   We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!

   1995, Pocahontas, spoken by John Smith

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   You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill

   1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan

   Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.

   2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC

plural Injuns

1. Alternative letter-case form of injun.

   "There's a couple of Injuns up over that hill, and right here is a good place to talk."

   1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 31

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   Maybeso the old man had not died of his terrible wounds; maybeso prowling Injuns had killed him—or white-fanged wolves.

   2013, Stanley Vestal, Jim Bridger - Mountain Man