Definition of "injun"

We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!

1995, Pocahontas, spoken by John Smith

You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill

1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan

Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.

2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in The Guardian‎