palefaces
Native Americans' term
Palefaces is a dated term for white people, used historically in depictions of Native American speech.
The word appears almost exclusively in old Western films and novels, where Indigenous characters supposedly called European settlers palefaces.
It now sounds campy and stereotypical, a Hollywood invention rather than authentic Native American usage: The palefaces came from the East.
Those who establish homes
- colonizersThose who establish foreign control
- EuropeansPeople from that continent
- explorersThose who venture unfamiliar lands
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
frontiersmen · missionaries · traders · trappers · colonists · homesteaders · Pilgrims · Puritans
Those not belonging
- invadersThose who enter by force
- strangersPeople unknown to you
- newcomersThose recently arrived
- foreignersPeople from elsewhere
trespassers · encroachers · white men · European-Americans · First Nations · oral tradition · cultural clash · dispossession
Insulting group label
- derogatoryExpressing criticism or disrespect
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
- racistOne prejudiced by ethnicity
- insensitiveUnaware of others' emotions
disrespectful · dehumanizing · stereotyping · othering · prejudice · bigotry · discrimination · caricature
settlers
Those who establish homes
- colonizersThose who establish foreign control
- EuropeansPeople from that continent
- explorersThose who venture unfamiliar lands
pioneers · frontiersmen · missionaries · traders · trappers · colonists · homesteaders · Pilgrims · Puritans · Quakers
outsiders
Those not belonging
foreigners · trespassers · encroachers · white men · European-Americans · First Nations · oral tradition · cultural clash · dispossession
slur
Insulting group label
- derogatoryExpressing criticism or disrespect
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
- racistOne prejudiced by ethnicity
insensitive · disrespectful · dehumanizing · stereotyping · othering · prejudice · bigotry · discrimination · caricature · oversimplification
palefacesredskins
Ethnic slur, indigenous peoples
Native Americans · Indians · indigenous peoples · natives · First Nations