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Slur Represents Reason & Origins
Ainu Japanese Aboriginals Originally, a word for the native Japanese islanders from Hokkaido, but now means roughly a "primitive" person. Usually look more European than their Japanese counterparts, i.e., more hairy and fair skinned. Not really derogatory.
Alcoholic Native Americans Known to have a hard time handling their liquor.
Apple Native Americans Used by Native Americans as derogatory for other Native Americans who are red on the outside but white on the inside.
BFI Native Americans The "Big Fucking Indian" at the back of the bar you dont want to piss off.
Big Red Native Americans A fat native person. Refference to the gum with the same name.
Blackout Native Americans A stereo type of American Indians referencing their prevalence to excessive alcohol consumption.
Blackrobe Whites White Missionaries. Native American term.
Blanket-Ass Native Americans From when the US Government gave tribes blankets.. I guess to make up for killing so many of them. The blankets were also rumored to be infested with smallpox.
Boong Australian Aboriginals Origin: "Boonga" is a native word from the Sydney area pre-1788 meaning anus.
Bow Bender Native Americans Indians shot bows.
Briar Whites Term probably comes from the briar bushes found in Appalachian states. Variant: briar-hopper. Applied locally to redneck Kentucky native or other southerner from Appalachia who resettled in Southwestern Ohio during or after WWII in search of factory jobs.
Bronx Indian Jews Probably not derogatory, possibly self-referential. Most likely from sometime between the turn of the century and the early sixties. I have only found one reference to it, but I believe it is most likely from the fact that in the first half of the twentieth century, for a period almost fifty percent of the Bronx was Jewish, thus they were seemingly like the native population of the Bronx.
Buck Native Americans The male equivalent of "squaw"
Buffalo Jockey Native Americans Self-explanatory.
Buffalo Soldier Blacks When the U.S. government was clearing the West of Native Americans, they sent many black units to hunt them down. The Indians thought they looked like buffalo.
Bumi Malaysians short for the malaysian term "bumiputra" - son of the soil. Used by non-native Malays
Bush Bandit Native American They hide is bushes
Bushnigger Native Americans Self-explanatory.
Casino Native Americans In reference to the many casinos popping up on Indian reservations all over America
Cherry Nigger Native Americans Color of their skin.
Chief Native Americans Self-explanatory.
Chug Native Americans Refers to alcoholism in Native Americans. They chug it back.
Cochise Native Americans An Apache chief who killed many a white man
Cowboy-Killer Native Americans They killed many a cowboy.
Crow Native Americans Used against other then Crows. Crows were scouts for the American Military or considered tradors by other Native Americans.
Custer Whites Used by Native Americans. I guess it means they want to see them dead like General Custer.
Desi Indians Refers to native Indians, non-derogatory even humorous, "des" means "country" and "desi" means fellow countrymen
Diesel Native Americans Rhyming slang, diesel engine = injun
Dirt-Worshipper Native Americans Made popular by HBO's "Deadwood"
Duck Vietnamese Based on noises made by Vietnamese people speaking in their native tongue, everything comes out sounding like "duk-duk-duk". Also in reference to how old women walk.
Eskimo Native Americans Eskimo was once acceptable in Canada, and still is almost anywhere else. It means "raw meat eater." Eskimo orginated from southern Indian tribes describing the northern Inuit, whom they were constantly fighting. Inuit take offence to being called Eskimos, despite the fact that they do eat raw meat.
Eucalyptus Nigger Australian Aboriginals The eucalyptus is a native plant of Australia.
FBI Native Americans Full Blooded Indian. Used in the movie Thunderheart. Not really a slur.
Feather Native Americans Used to differentiate Indians from India ("Dots") from those from America ("Feathers").
Featherhead Native Americans Comes from Native American tribes that wore feathered headdresses.
Fort Injun/Indian Native Americans A term used to represent the [traitor?] Indians who hid behind the safety of the forts.
Gas Huffer Native Americans A large number of Native Americans, particularly those living in northwest Canada/Alaska, are said to be addicted to inhalants.
Gasbag Native Americans Some Natives are commonly prone to 'huffing' gas out of a plastic bag.
Glonni Native Americans Navajo for drunk. Extremely offensive to anyone who speaks Navajo.
Gusak Whites Alaskan Native Dorogatry term for Caucasion
Gut-Eater Native Americans They eat stomach lining (tripe) of deer, buffalo, etc. Also after the newly-arrived whites killed all the buffalo they would take every thing but the guts. So all the plains Indians had to eat was guts.
Half-a-gas-can Native Americans Comes from the name "Athabaskan", an Alaskan Indian group.
Hatchet-Packer Native Americans They are always carrying their hatchets
Huff Native Americans They huff gas to get high as they can't afford real drugs
Indian Native Americans Indians come from India, not North/South America. Offensive because original American settlers from Europe completely misnamed them.
Indijew Mixed Races Native American/Jewish
Init Native Americans Sioux Indians. Init is a actual word the Sioux like to use. We like to say this is "rez talk" so eventually it fit to call them Inits.
Injun Native Americans Pioneer-related term dates back to the 19th century during the Western Expansion. Probably comes from country people who could not pronounce the word Indian correctly.
Jewronimo Mixed Races Jew/Native American mix (Geronimo)
Jig Native Americans In Canada, they do a dance called a jig or jigging.
John Redcorn Native Americans The Native Americans character on the animated show King of the Hill is named John Redcorn
Kanaka Hawaiians A Hawaiian word meaning simply "person." Whites and Asians began to use it in a disparaging way and for most of the 19th and 20th century it was equivalent to "nigger." In recent times, Hawaiians have made great efforts to "reclaim" the word from its negative associations and often describe themselves as "kanaka maoli" or "native people." That said, non-Hawaiian natives should still excercise great care when attempting to use the term.
Ki Yi Native Americans Rhymes with 'pie pie'. The sounds made in old western movies by the Indians.
Kiwi New Zealanders The native bird of NZ and a popular fruit. Not necessarily a slur.
Klooch Native Americans Common slur used for Alaskan Indians.
Knee Jerk Native Americans Subset of Native American indicating person who was at Wounded Knee incident in South Dakota in the '70s; Member of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement)
Kukolokod Native Americans From the Beatles song where there is a verse "I am the walrus, kuko loko chu". Walrus live in Alaska.
Maggot Whites Maggots breed from filth and when the Whites came to America, they brought with them rats and diseases therefore wiping out half of the Native American population. Hence the term "maggots".
Maize-Muncher Native Americans Natives are known for there love of corn.
Mascot Native Americans Their likeness is often mascots for sports teams
Mestizo Hispanics Specifically, Spanish/Native American mixed breed. Not polite, but not taboo either. From the Spanish word for "mixed".
Mohow Native Americans Indians have Mohawks & Pow wows.
Moon Cricket Whites The slur is also used by some Native Americans against whites: "moon" as in pale, and "cricket" as in whites have big eyes and gangly legs. Whites also make annoying sounds like crickets.
Muck Native Americans Short for "Muckleshoot", one of the most stereotypical and despised tribes of the Pacific Northwest
Muckadoo Blacks Shawnee, Native American term for "Mud person"
Naco Hispanics Native Mexicans. Used as an insult by city dwellers on indigenous, small town inhabitants or vulgar people even from the big city.
Nate Native Americans Shortened. Could probably be used on any native peoples.
Neechee Native Americans Love of Lychee fruit.
Nit Native Americans Chivington ordered him men: "kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice" just before the Sand Creek massacre in 1864. This was an explination as to why troops were ordered to kill Indian children.
Non Whites Used by Native Americans to describe people who are "non-native". This can be directed at any race, but primarily used toward whites. Simply a descriptive word used from native to native.
Osrouge Mixed Races Native American/Black mix. Rouge means 'Red' in French.
Paleface Whites The brim of a cowboy's hat would make an odd suntan across his face. The bottom half would be tanned dark, while the top half remained pale because it was shaded by the brim. The Native American sign for a white person was wiping the index finger across their own face along the bridge of the nose, indicating the border between dark and light skin on a cowboy's face. They came to call the white men "pale faces".
Pilgrim Whites All white people come from Europe, they claim to be American, but they are not, they are pilgrims. It's a racist term because when white people realize the truth, whatever pride they have in being American will be crushed. This term is mostly used by Mexicans and Native Americans, which happen to be the real Americans, not whites.
Pinto Mixed Races White/Native American mix. Pinto horses are white and brown.
Pow Wow Native Americans Their calls
Prairie Nigger Native Americans Where Natives originate, or were sent
Pretendian Native Americans Native Americans who claim to be pure, but are just mixed-breeds. I suppose this could refer to any mixed -ian race.
Prigger Canadian Aboriginals/Native Canadians Prairie nigger. They are called priggers because they resemble America's Black population, living in ghettos of poverty and violence with the highest crime rate in Canada. Prigger usually means a native aboriginal in Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba, the 3 prairie provinces. It can also be used to describe aboriginals from other parts of Canada but is mainly suited to the prairie provinces only.
Radish Native Americans Red on the outside, white on the inside.
Red Native Americans Skin color.
Red Nigger Native Americans Self-explanatory.
Redskin Native Americans The term Redskin, came from two places, the skin color, then the cruel torture of skinning Native Americans for a bounty. Since their skin was red they started saying "red skins."
Salmon Cruncher Native Americans Salmon is the main part of the diet in many northern villages.
Salmon Nigger Native Americans Salmon was a primary food source for Northwestern Native Americans.
Savage Native Americans Americans commonly called Native Americans by this name in the 1800s.
Scalper Native Americans Based on the Native American practice of scalping enemies.
Seal-Clubber Native Americans Clubbing of seals for the fur and meat
Semihole Native Americans Referring to the Seminole tribe.
Siwash Native Americans Originates from the French word Sauvage which means "savage"
Smoke-Signal Native Americans Many American Indians communicated by using smoke signals.
Spic Hispanics Short for Hispanic. Might also be acronym of SPanish, Indian, and Colored, coming from the mixed breeds that resulted from the union of Spanish colonists, Indian natives, and Black (colored) slaves. From the OED. spic A. n. a. A contemptuous and offensive name for a Spanish-speaking native of Central or South America or the Caribbean; a spiggoty. - It dates back (in print) to at least 1913. However, I understand it first applied to Italian immigrants in the late 1800s - More information: 1938 Amer. Speech XIII. 311/1 "Spiggoty" originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of 'spikee de' in the sentence 'No spikee de English'
Spruce Monkey Native Americans Spruce forests
Squanto Native Americans Name of a Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag.
Squaw Native Americans Refers to Native American women. Usually thought to refer to a woman's vagina, but this is fairly controversial.
Squaw Hopper Native Americans Usually associated with natives, but also used for anyone in a relationship with a native female
Tee-Pee Creeper Native Americans Some live in tee-pees.
Timber Nigger Native Americans Similar to Prairie Nigger.
Tipi Tom Native Americans Combination if Tee-pee living and tom-tom usage.
Tomahawk-Chucker Native Americans Self-explanatory.
Tomahonky Native Americans Normally refers to whites with a Native American heritage. Combo of tomahawk + honky
Tonto Native Americans Native American character from The Lone Ranger. Spanish for "Idiot"
Trail Nigger Native Americans Self Explanatory
Tundra Nigger Native Americans same as prarie nigger, but Eskimos are a different species of animal than Indians.
Wagon-Burner Native Americans They burnt wagons
Wahoo Native Americans War Cry, there was also a famous Native American wrestler named Wahoo McDaniel in the 80's.
War Whoop Native Americans Refers to the traditional Native American war cry.
Washisho Whites Pronounced Wa-She-Shoo; is a typical reservation slur for Native Americans to use when talking about white people in a derogatory manner.
WOPaho Native Americans Any person claiming to be part Navaho Indian, but are without papers or pedigree showing it. Similar To Wigger In Some Respects. A couple of Kootenai Indians in my home town called some people this once, and I heard it as a boy. Naturally, I asked... "You know, there's always someone claimng to be part Navaho, but they have no papers..."
Wound Whites Used when Native Americans and Blacks describing Whites whom they see as hurting them many times in present and past and represent an ongoing unhealed open wound, also wounds are often pink in color (the open sore) so it represents the color of many whites who look pink
Yazzie Native Americans Common last name among Navajos which is used in the derogatorily by whites.