tree nigger

English

Etymology

tree + nigger

Noun

tree nigger (plural tree niggers)

1. (ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) A Native American person
   • 1862, Supplement to the Courant‎, page 88:

     sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies

   • 1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12‎, page xlviii:

     lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a "tree nigger" or worse.

   • 2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m:

     He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers.

Related terms

• prairie nigger
• red nigger
• redskin
• timber nigger

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