| Alcoholic |
Native Americans |
Known to have a hard time handling their liquor. |
| Big Red |
Native Americans |
A fat native person. Refference to the gum with the same name. |
| Blackout |
Native Americans |
A stereo type of American Indians referencing their prevalence to excessive alcohol consumption. |
| Blanket-Ass |
Native Americans |
From when the US Government gave tribes blankets.. I guess to make up for killing so many of them. The blankets were also rumored to be infested with smallpox. |
| Bow Bender |
Native Americans |
Indians shot bows. |
| Buck |
Native Americans |
The male equivalent of “squaw” |
| Buffalo Jockey |
Native Americans |
Self-explanatory. |
| Bushnigger |
Native Americans |
Self-explanatory. |
| Casino |
Native Americans |
In reference to the many casinos popping up on Indian reservations all over America |
| Cherry Nigger |
Native Americans |
Color of their skin. |
| Chief |
Native Americans |
Self-explanatory. |
| Chug |
Native Americans |
Refers to alcoholism in Native Americans. They chug it back. |
| Cochise |
Native Americans |
An Apache chief who killed many a white man |
| Cowboy-Killer |
Native Americans |
They killed many a cowboy. |
| Diesel |
Native Americans |
Rhyming slang, diesel engine = injun |
| Dirt-Worshipper |
Native Americans |
Made popular by HBO’s “Deadwood” |
| Eskimo |
Native Americans |
Eskimo was once acceptable in Canada, and still is almost anywhere else. It means “raw meat eater.” Eskimo orginated from southern Indian tribes describing the northern Inuit, whom they were constantly fighting. Inuit take offence to being called Eskimos, despite the fact that they do eat raw meat. |
| FBI |
Native Americans |
Full Blooded Indian. Used in the movie Thunderheart. Not really a slur. |
| Feather |
Native Americans |
Used to differentiate Indians from India (“Dots”) from those from America (“Feathers”). |
| Featherhead |
Native Americans |
Comes from Native American tribes that wore feathered headdresses. |
| Fort Injun/Indian |
Native Americans |
A term used to represent the [traitor?] Indians who hid behind the safety of the forts. |
| Gas Huffer |
Native Americans |
A large number of Native Americans, particularly those living in northwest Canada/Alaska, are said to be addicted to inhalants. |
| Gasbag |
Native Americans |
Some Natives are commonly prone to ‘huffing’ gas out of a plastic bag. |
| Glonni |
Native Americans |
Navajo for drunk. Extremely offensive to anyone who speaks Navajo. |
| Gut-Eater |
Native Americans |
They eat stomach lining (tripe) of deer, buffalo, etc. Also after the newly-arrived whites killed all the buffalo they would take every thing but the guts. So all the plains Indians had to eat was guts. |
| Half-a-gas-can |
Native Americans |
Comes from the name “Athabaskan”, an Alaskan Indian group. |
| Hatchet-Packer |
Native Americans |
They are always carrying their hatchets |
| Huff |
Native Americans |
They huff gas to get high as they can’t afford real drugs |
| Indian |
Native Americans |
Indians come from India, not North/South America. Offensive because original American settlers from Europe completely misnamed them. |
| Init |
Native Americans |
Sioux Indians. Init is a actual word the Sioux like to use. We like to say this is “rez talk” so eventually it fit to call them Inits. |
| Injun |
Native Americans |
Pioneer-related term dates back to the 19th century during the Western Expansion. Probably comes from country people who could not pronounce the word Indian correctly. |
| John Redcorn |
Native Americans |
The Native Americans character on the animated show King of the Hill is named John Redcorn |
| Ki Yi |
Native Americans |
Rhymes with ‘pie pie’. The sounds made in old western movies by the Indians. |
| Klooch |
Native Americans |
Common slur used for Alaskan Indians. |
| Knee Jerk |
Native Americans |
Subset of Native American indicating person who was at Wounded Knee incident in South Dakota in the ’70s; Member of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement) |
| Kukolokod |
Native Americans |
From the Beatles song where there is a verse “I am the walrus, kuko loko chu”. Walrus live in Alaska. |
| Maize-Muncher |
Native Americans |
Natives are known for there love of corn. |
| Mascot |
Native Americans |
Their likeness is often mascots for sports teams |
| Mohow |
Native Americans |
Indians have Mohawks & Pow wows. |
| Nate |
Native Americans |
Shortened. Could probably be used on any native peoples. |
| Neechee |
Native Americans |
Love of Lychee fruit. |
| Nit |
Native Americans |
Chivington ordered him men: “kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice” just before the Sand Creek massacre in 1864. This was an explination as to why troops were ordered to kill Indian children. |
| Pow Wow |
Native Americans |
Their calls |
| Prairie Nigger |
Native Americans |
Where Natives originate, or were sent |
| Pretendian |
Native Americans |
Native Americans who claim to be pure, but are just mixed-breeds. I suppose this could refer to any mixed -ian race. |
| Radish |
Native Americans |
Red on the outside, white on the inside. |
| Red Nigger |
Native Americans |
Self-explanatory. |
| Redskin |
Native Americans |
The term Redskin, came from two places, the skin color, then the cruel torture of skinning Native Americans for a bounty. Since their skin was red they started saying “red skins.” |
| Salmon Cruncher |
Native Americans |
Salmon is the main part of the diet in many northern villages. |
| Salmon Nigger |
Native Americans |
Salmon was a primary food source for Northwestern Native Americans. |
| Savage |
Native Americans |
Americans commonly called Native Americans by this name in the 1800s. |
| Scalper |
Native Americans |
Based on the Native American practice of scalping enemies. |
| Seal-Clubber |
Native Americans |
Clubbing of seals for the fur and meat |
| Semihole |
Native Americans |
Referring to the Seminole tribe. |
| Siwash |
Native Americans |
Originates from the French word Sauvage which means “savage” |
| Smoke-Signal |
Native Americans |
Many American Indians communicated by using smoke signals. |
| Spruce Monkey |
Native Americans |
Spruce forests |
| Squanto |
Native Americans |
Name of a Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag. |
| Squaw |
Native Americans |
Refers to Native American women. Usually thought to refer to a woman’s vagina, but this is fairly controversial. |
| Squaw Hopper |
Native Americans |
Usually associated with natives, but also used for anyone in a relationship with a native female |
| Tee-Pee Creeper |
Native Americans |
Some live in tee-pees. |
| Timber Nigger |
Native Americans |
Similar to Prairie Nigger. |
| Tipi Tom |
Native Americans |
Combination if Tee-pee living and tom-tom usage. |
| Tomahawk-Chucker |
Native Americans |
Self-explanatory. |
| Tomahonky |
Native Americans |
Normally refers to whites with a Native American heritage. Combo of tomahawk + honky |
| Tonto |
Native Americans |
Native American character from The Lone Ranger. Spanish for “Idiot” |
| Trail Nigger |
Native Americans |
Self Explanatory |
| Tundra Nigger |
Native Americans |
same as prarie nigger, but Eskimos are a different species of animal than Indians. |
| Wagon-Burner |
Native Americans |
They burnt wagons |
| Wahoo |
Native Americans |
War Cry, there was also a famous Native American wrestler named Wahoo McDaniel in the 80’s. |
| War Whoop |
Native Americans |
Refers to the traditional Native American war cry. |
| WOPaho |
Native Americans |
Any person claiming to be part Navaho Indian, but are without papers or pedigree showing it. Similar To Wigger In Some Respects. A couple of Kootenai Indians in my home town called some people this once, and I heard it as a boy. Naturally, I asked… “You know, there’s always someone claimng to be part Navaho, but they have no papers…” |
| Yazzie |
Native Americans |
Common last name among Navajos which is used in the derogatorily by whites. |
