dot Indian

plural dot Indians

1. informalAn Indian; a person from India.

   MY FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT and I got stuck behind a family of Indians (Not scalpers, but dot Indians).

   2012, Jesse C. Holder, Chutes, Beer, & Bullets: Not Your Grandpa's War Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 17

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   It was no surprise that the doctor proved to be a dot Indian (as opposed to feather Indian, a Native American).

   2005, Reynolds Price, The Good Priest's Son, Scribner Book Company

   In a landscape of whites and blacks, the most conspicuous person I saw was this man, my first Indian in the South, the owner-manager of a motel, a dot Indian with a caste mark on his forehead rather than a feather Indian.

   2015, Paul Theroux, Deep South, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 25