"Indian" joins "Negro"

[Jonathan Lighter]

...as a word requiring scare quotes:

2010 Randy Meyers in _Boulder Daily Camera_ (Dec. 24) "Friday Magazine" 4:
The unlikely trio [of  _True Grit_] . . . embark on a risky adventure into
"Indian" territory.

 JL

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