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Definition of American Indian Day
1. Noun. US: the 4th Friday in September.
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Indian Day
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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