"dot Indian" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "A reference to the bindi. See also dot or feather.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jesse C. Holder, Chutes, Beer, & Bullets: Not Your Grandpa's War Story, AuthorHouse, page 17",
          "text": "MY FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT and I got stuck behind a family of Indians (Not scalpers, but dot Indians).",
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          "ref": "2005, Reynolds Price, The Good Priest's Son, Scribner Book Company",
          "text": "It was no surprise that the doctor proved to be a dot Indian (as opposed to feather Indian, a Native American).",
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          "ref": "2015, Paul Theroux, Deep South, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 25",
          "text": "In a landscape of whites and blacks, the most conspicuous person I saw was this man, my first Indian in the South, the owner-manager of a motel, a dot Indian with a caste mark on his forehead rather than a feather Indian.",
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        "an Indian; a person from India"
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        "(informal) an Indian; a person from India"
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  "word": "dot Indian"
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