Word.ws English Dictionary

Uncle Tomahawk

Uncle Tomahawk noun: a Native American who is subservient to white authority.

Noun

Uncle Tomahawk (plural Uncle Tomahawks)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, slur) A Native American who is subservient to white authority.
    • They criticized the old leaders as “Uncle Tomahawks.”1994, David De Leon, Leaders from the 1960s, page 4
    • The supposed “Uncle Tomahawks” included the leadership of the Five Tribes, and the Chicago conference and subsequent NIYC rhetoric alerted the more-conservative Five Tribes leaders of potential challenges to their rule […]2013, Mark Edwin Miller, Claiming Tribal Identity, page 110

Forms of Uncle Tomahawk

pluralUncle Tomahawks

Origin of Uncle Tomahawk

Blend of Uncle Tom + tomahawk.

Questions about Uncle Tomahawk

What does Uncle Tomahawk mean?
Uncle Tomahawk means a Native American who is subservient to white authority.
What part of speech is Uncle Tomahawk?
Uncle Tomahawk is a noun.
What is the plural of Uncle Tomahawk?
The plural of Uncle Tomahawk is Uncle Tomahawks.

Words near Uncle Tomahawk in the dictionary

  1. Uncle Sugar
  2. Uncle Thomas
  3. Uncle Thomases
  4. Uncle Tom
  5. Uncle Tom Cobley and all
  6. Uncle Tomahawk
  7. Uncle Tomahawks
  8. Uncle Tomish
  9. Uncle Tomism
  10. Uncle Tommery
  11. Uncle Tommish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Uncle Tomahawk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Uncle Tomahawk.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/uncle_tomahawk. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.