Lexic.us

Definition of Indian race

1. Noun. Sometimes included in the Caucasian race; native to the subcontinent of India.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Race

Literary usage of Indian race

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Indian in His Wigwam, Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1848)
"MY earliest 'impressions of the Indian race, were drawn from the fireside rehearsals of incidents which had happened during the perilous times of the ..."

2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... subsidence—Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition'— Plain with embedded Shells and fragments of Pottery—Antiquity of the Indian race. ..."

3. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"On the other hand, aliens to the empire of African or Indian race, if not every alien of a barbarian or heathen race, were without the protection given by ..."

4. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"On the other hand, aliens to the empire of African or Indian race, if not every alien of a barbarian or heathen race, were without the protection given by ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... subsidence—Elevated Shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition— Plain with embedded Shells and fragments of Pottery—Antiquity of the Indian race. ..."

6. The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1851)
"MY earliest impressions of the Indian race, were drawn from the fireside rehearsals of incidents which had happened during the perilous times of the ..."

7. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"It has only been a few years since the actual work to uplift this Indian race began. We need not go much into old records, or history. ..."

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