timber nigger

plural timber niggers

1. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurA Native American person, especially one of Ojibwe descent.

   Or like his neighbor Morriseau, who probably got a government subsidy because he was a timber nigger.

   2004, Mary Relindes Ellis, The Turtle Warrior, Penguin Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 161

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   Unfortunately, many people suffer from the Hollywood distortions of Indian history. While the Chippewa never waged hostility toward the United States, the feeling appears to be that they should conduct themselves as a vanquished people. Should the Chippewa fail to act vanquished and join in the mainstream of American society, they are regarded as un-American renegades deserving the epithet of "timber nigger."

   1987, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, November 4, 1987”, in Anti-Indian Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 1988, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 253

   Synonyms: prairie nigger, red nigger, redskin, tree nigger