Definition of American Indian Day

1. Noun. US: the 4th Friday in September.

Generic synonyms: Day
Group relationships: Sep, Sept, September

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Indian Day

American Bobtail
American Bobtails
American Bulldog
American Bulldogs
American Cancer Society
American Civil War
American Curl
American Curls
American Dream
American English
American Falls
American Federalist Party
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indus
American Indian
American Indian Day (current term)
American Indians
American Keuda
American Keudas
American Labor Party
American Law Institute formulation
American Law Institute rule
American League
American Legion
American Party
American Red Cross
American Revised Version
American Revolution
American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary leader

Literary usage of American Indian Day

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

1. American Anniversaries: Every Day in the Year, Presenting Seven Hundred and by Philip Robert Dillon (1918)
"Second Saturday in May—American Indian Day, established by the Society of American Indians, year 1915. Second Sunday in May—Mother's Day. On May 9, 1914, ..."

2. Holidays & Celebrations: How to Make Books W/Children by Joy Evans, Jill Norris (1997)
"Originally called American Indian Day, it was first observed in New York in 1912 under the direction of Dr. Arthur C. Parker who suggested the idea to the ..."

3. The Life of General Ely S. Parker: Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois and ...by Arthur Caswell Parker by Arthur Caswell Parker (1919)
"He was the originator of "American Indian Day." It is an imposing and honorable list, not by any means exhausted in the foregoing enumeration; ..."

4. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"American Indian Day. On May 13, 1916, was celebrated for the first time an Indian national holiday, which every person of Indian ancestry was called ..."

5. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1882)
"NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN day by day, until they are assured of the favour of the Great One Above by seeing Gard ascend from the ground in the form of a smoke. ..."

6. Essentials of Americanization by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1920)
"... procedure are seen in the new policy that was announced by the Federal Government on April 17, 1917; in the recognition of American Indian Day, ..."

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