Where did the phrase Indian Summer come from?

Answer 1

Indian Summers are a period of warm and pleasant fall days that occur between the first frost and the onset of winter. Indian Summer is a period of warm, sunny weather in the fall, not long before winter. It normally occurs after the first frost and can be mid-October or early November in the northen hemisphere, late April or the beginning of May in the Southern Hemisphere. It ranges anywhere from a few days to a week or more.

Answer 2

The phrase Indian Summer is believed to have come from the early settlers to the United States. When the weather would turn cool they felt they could relax and not worry about the Native Americans. However, it would suddenly warm up again and the Native Americans would come back, they referred to this warming up during colder weather as Indian Summer.

Answer 3

Indian summers have nothing to do with proximity to the sun, but are in fact an unusually high pressure system forming in the South West, for the united states, and moving to the North East. The high pressure system displaces the typical high pressure systems coming from the North West.

Answer 4

According to the book "History of the County of Middlesex Canada"

W. A. & C. L. GOODSPEED, PUBLISHERS. 1889

Robert Summers states that Indian summer is named from the fact that in the fall the Indians would burn the western prairies to make their harvest of game, the smoke and sometimes leaves coming over to Canada, and the settlers called the season Indian summer.

Answer 5

It's from when the Indians would raid the Pioneers during warm summer nights.

Answer 6

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