I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an
Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come.
"Ben, I'd like to, honest
injun; but Aunt Polly -- well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn't let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn't let Sid.
Well, the
Injun boy had the raven tied up, and was all the time plaguing it and starving it, and she pitied the po' thing, and tried to buy it from the boy, and the tears was in her eyes.
* From the mid-60s until 2004, Lemont High School teams were known as the "
Injuns," a term viewed as a racial slur by many.
Talking about "
injuns" when he was clearly one himself.
NorCal's Drunk
Injuns occupied the stage next, with their moody, slightly broody, but all around radical rock.
The tracks are "
Injuns, Here They Come" (4:11), "Ooh Na Nay" (3:39), "UPT" (3:20), "Shallow Water" (5:11), "Jock-A-Mo" (3:47), "Hold 'em Joe" (3:59), "All on a Mardi Gras Day" (4:13), "Li'l Liza Jane" (4:38), "Tootie Ma" (4:05), and "Cha Wa Got Fiya" (3:34).
Today the native Americans or Red Indians (or just '
Injuns' in settler speak) are to be found in small, isolated reservations, like some endangered species, which they indeed are now.
There's a bit where Hercules and Co come back to camp to find their comrades riddled with arrows that got me thinking '
Injuns!', and of course there's the old-fashioned love story with Herc and his brother as romantic rivals for soppy Hebe (Gaia Weiss).
James Garner and a depleted cavalry unit are pinned down by hostile
Injuns. Dynamic oldschool Western - a firstrate, red-blooded example of the breed.
Controlled by the fearsome duo of Aunty and Mother, they are brought up believing that the sun is the Devil and the Outside World is a deadly place full of "
Injuns" and "Demonmales".
Neverland is populated with winsome Lost Boys, whooping
Injuns, a collection of tumbling pirates headed by Milkshake's Derek Moran as (a rather subdued) Smee, a realistic looking mechanical crocodile, Carrie Ellis's no nonsense northern Mermaid, and Lucy Johnson's delightful rollerskating Tinkerbell.
Injun - (slang) offensive term for Native Americans