Citations:timber nigger

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English citations of timber nigger

Noun: "(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang) a Native American person, especially one of Ojibwe descent"

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  • 1993 — Anthony Bukoski, Children of Strangers, Southern Methodist University Press (1993), →ISBN, page 68:
    "You'll pay for more than that if you timber niggers go out fishing with gill nets to muck everything up for us business owners. Nobody gonna come to Wisconsin you take all our fish."
  • 1997 — Albertine Strong, Deluge, Harmony Books (1997), →ISBN, page 250:
    "Go home, timber niggers," someone has painted on the west wall.
  • 1998 — Dennis Boyer, Northern Frights: A Supernatural Ecology of the Wisconsin Headwaters, Prairie Oak Press (1998), →ISBN, page 72:
    Instead, they were at the boat landings doing belly bumps and shouting "timber nigger" at us.
  • 2004 — Mary Relindes Ellis, The Turtle Warrior, Penguin Books (2005), →ISBN, page 161:
    Or like his neighbor Morriseau, who probably got a government subsidy because he was a timber nigger.