# The Red Knife Indian — Journals character guide

> The Red Knife Indian in Journals by Alexander Mackenzie.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Red Knife Indian

**First appearance:** 0003-to-the-frozen-ocean-in-1789

## Who they are

A member of the Red Knife Indigenous group.

## Relationships

### [The Indians](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/journals_se/characters/the_indians)

_social_

The Red Knife Indian is a member of a related or neighboring Indigenous group interacting with the Indians.

## In the story

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/journals_se/chapters/iv)

Guide who wishes to leave, expressing fear of the Eskimo.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/journals_se/chapters/ix)

The guide who returns with six relatives, wearing a painted beaver robe.

### [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/journals_se/chapters/xii)

A hostile native who had previously treated the party with insolence; he and his companions cause alarm by going upriver ahead of the party.

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