Lexic.us

Definition of Amerindian race

1. Noun. Usually included in the Mongoloid race.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amerindian Race

Literary usage of Amerindian race

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

1. St. Lucia by Don Philpott (2005)
"HISTORY THE ARAWAKS The original people of the islands were the gentle Arawaks, an amerindian race, although little is known about them or when they first ..."

2. The North-Americans of Yesterday: A Comparative Study of North-American by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1900)
"To sum briefly up, then, it seems that the amerindian race, while originally composed of different elements, was, as a body, separated from the other ..."

3. The Negro in the New World by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1910)
"point of view more easily managed, more sympathetic and likeable than many an Asiatic or amerindian race. He is vain rather than proud, good-natured to a ..."

4. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard (1920)
"Here dwells the "Amerindian" race. At the time of Columbus the whole western hemisphere was theirs, but the white man has extirpated or absorbed them to ..."

5. Let 'er Buck, a Story of the Passing of the Old West by Charles Wellington Furlong (1921)
"Of all riders of the amerindian race, none have ever ridden into such popularity at the Round-Up as Jackson Sundown the Nez Perce, of Culdesac, Idaho, ..."

6. Modern Mexico by Robert Joseph MacHugh (1914)
"... originally the home of a considerable number of distinct peoples belonging to what ethnologists term, for convenience' sake, the " Amerindian " race. ..."

7. Trinidad & Tobago by Don Philpott (2002)
"They called Trinidad lere, which meant the land of hummingbirds. Warlike Caribs, another amerindian race, certainly landed on Trinidad some time between ..."

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