Citations:prairie nigger

English citations of prairie nigger

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

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• 1994 — Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace, HarperCollinsPublishers (1994), →ISBN, page 71:

  As I turn away with my purchase, I hear him mutter something and I stop. I thought I heard it, but I wasn't sure I heard it. Prairie nigger.

• 1997 — Peter Bowen, Notches, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  […] I am nicely trying to explain to this fucking prairie nigger across the table here that I am worried that I will have to arrest him and send him to Walla Walla."

• 1998 — Christine Andreae, A Small Target, Harlequin Books (1998), →ISBN, page 59:

  There was Roland, dead on the rocks, with an arrow sticking out of his eyeball, and this white guy — a real cutie — made a crack about open season on prairie niggers.

• 2002 — Debra Magpie Earling, Perma Red, BlueHen Books (2002), →ISBN, page 52:

  […] then Railer was at my side door yelling, "You dumb prairie nigger," he yelled. "Damn dumb prairie nigger."

• 2004 — Johnny D. Boggs, Spark on the Prairie, Thorndike Press (2004), →ISBN, page 293:

  "I know he's a damned Kiowa, mister, and that's all I have to know about that prairie nigger."

• 2004 — Edward Jae-Suk Lee, The Good Man, Bridge Works (2004), →ISBN, page 221:

  Wise up, Val. Granddad don't care a lick about no one but himself. You're just another prairie nigger to him.

• 2005 — Alley Robinson, Summer of the Changing Woman, iUniverse (2005), →ISBN, page 83:

  "You gotta be a damn prairie nigger to get a little service around here?"

• 2007 — Thomas Maltman, The Night Birds, Soho Press (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  "A pretty sight," he says, "for a prairie nigger."

• 2007 — James A. Starkey, Jr., Back to the Blanket: A Native Narrative of Discovery, AuthorHouse (2007), →ISBN, page 388:

  "We got to liven up this here prairie nigger!"

• 2008 — Tom Holm, The Osage Rose, University of Arizona Press (2008), →ISBN, page 229:

  […] You cur-dog, you ambushed him like the sneaky prairie nigger you are. […]

• 2009 — Seth O'Connell, Dying in the Twilight of Summer, AuthorHouse (2009), →ISBN, page 224:

  […] It is bullshit how many advantages Uncle Sam gives them prairie niggers."

• 2011 — James Robb, Corona Rapture, iUniverse (2011), →ISBN, page 53:

  […] I don't have to listen to some prairie nigger whine about ethics. Go drink it out on a reservation," Amanda said, breaking for the stairs.

  "I'm Sicilian," Luca corrected.

  "I don't care what tribe you're from!" […]