Definitions for Redskin
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1. Redskin, Injun, red mannoun

   (slang) offensive term for Native Americans

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1. Redskinnoun

   (Football) A member of the Washington Redskins, a football team.

2. Redskinnoun

   A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. It is now considered pejorative by some persons of North American Indian heritage. Cooper.

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. redskinnoun

   An American Indian, Red Indian.

2. Etymology: From the reddish skin colour of American Indians.

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1. Redskin

   Redskin is a slang term for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada. The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries and in contemporary dictionaries of American English it is labeled as offensive, disparaging, or insulting. Although the term has almost disappeared from contemporary use, it remains as the name of many sports teams. The most prominent was the Washington NFL team. After decades of resistance to change by the owners, management and fans; major sponsors responded to calls to end systemic racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by advocating a name change. The new name Washington Commanders was announced on February 2, 2022. While the usage by other teams has been declining steadily, 37 high schools in the United States continue to be Redskins. School administrators and alumni assert that their use of the name is honoring their local tradition and not insulting to Native Americans. The origin of the choice of red to describe Native Americans in English is debated. While related terms were used in anthropological literature as early as the 17th century, labels based on skin color entered everyday speech around the middle of the 18th century. "At the start of the eighteenth century, Indians and Europeans rarely mentioned the color of each other's skins. By midcentury, remarks about skin color and the categorization of peoples by simple color-coded labels (red, white, black) had become commonplace."

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Redskinnoun

   a common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin

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1. Redskin

   "Redskin" is a racial descriptor for Native Americans, the origin of which is disputed. Although by some accounts not originally having negative intent, the term is now defined by dictionaries of American English as "usually offensive", "disparaging", "insulting", "taboo" and is avoided in public usage with the exception of its continued use as a name for sports teams. The term derives from the use of "red" as a color metaphor for race following European colonization of the Western Hemisphere. While initial explorers and later Anglo-Americans termed Native Americans light-skinned, brown, tawny, and russet. According to historian Alden T. Vaughan, "Not until the middle of the eighteenth century did most Anglo-Americans view Indians as significantly different in color from themselves, and not until the nineteenth century did red become the universally accepted color label for American Indians." Slang identifiers for ethnic groups based upon physical characteristics, including skin color, are almost universally slurs, or derogatory, emphasizing the difference between the speaker and the target.

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1. Redskin

   A literal or objective term for a full bodied red-painted Native American warrior typically encountered in the Northeast woodland and frontier regions from the 1600s to the mid 1800s.

   When the people of the colonial Massachusetts town saw Indians coming, they made ready for trade but when they saw the painted Redskins, they knew that these were warriors on a mission.

   
   

   Submitted by JP03 on October 20, 2015  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Redskin in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Redskin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Redskin
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Redskin
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Redskin
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redskin
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Redskin
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Redskin