Amerindianize

English Etymology From en Amerindian ize. Verb en transitive To make Amerindian. en 1985 Barbara Burnaby Promoting Native Writing Systems in Canada 24 21 Amerindianizing the Image of the SchoolEarly 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 en 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. en 2005 Ute Lischke Walking a Tightrope: Aboriginal People and Their Representations 129 The challenge for Indians, he says, is to “Amerindianize” (as he puts it) our technological society en 2007 Jocelyne Guilbault Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics 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.