Amerindianize

English

Etymology

From Amerindian +‎ -ize.

Verb

Amerindianize (third-person singular simple present Amerindianizes, present participle Amerindianizing, simple past and past participle Amerindianized)

1. (transitive) To make Amerindian.
   • 1985, Barbara Burnaby, Promoting Native Writing Systems in Canada, number 24, page 21:

     Amerindianizing the Image of the School
     Early in the 1970s the Quebec office of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development established a training program for Indian teachers called the Amerindianization of the Schools […]

   • 1992, Louise Fiber Luce, The Spanish-speaking world: an anthology of cross-cultural perspectives:

     Their strong wind seems anglicized when compared to Asturias's Amerindianized one.

   • 2005, Ute Lischke, Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations, page 129:

     The challenge for Indians, he says, is to “Amerindianize” (as he puts it) our technological society […]

   • 2007, Jocelyne Guilbault, Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics, page 125:

     In turn, the Amerindianizing of his Spanish heritage (through his mother's mixed background) carries “vestiges of Trinidad's original, 'authentic,' and somewhat romanticized past, in the form of aboriginal blood.