This reverence for the calumet is shown by the manner in which it is used at dances, in the ceremony of smoking, etc.
When the calumet dance was held, the Illinois appear to have resorted to the houses in the winter and to the groves in the summer.
That the calumet was brought into requisition upon all occasions of interest is learned from the following statement, in which the same writer declares that it is “the most mysterious thing in the World.
Their Calumet of Peace is different from the Calumet of War; They make use of the former to seal their Alliances and Treaties, to travel with safety, and receive Strangers; and the other is to proclaim War.
In their wild excitement and eagerness to have the story begin, both Sagastao and Minnehaha sprang up and, rushing toward Souwanas, vied with each other in seeing which could first pluck the half-smoked calumet from his mouth.
For was not Souwanas a chief, and the calumet almost a sacred thing while between his lips?
Each man took two or three whiffs, while murmuring a prayer, and then the calumet passed on to the next.
The guide sat down silently, and began smoking the calumet which the chief seated by his side immediately offered him.
After this, our calumet bearers frequently turned to the four cardinal points, muttering mysterious words, and indulging in strange gestures and imitations.
He wrapped himself up in his buffalo robe, sat down by the fire, lit his calumet by means of a medicine staff adorned with bells and feathers, and remained silent, with his eyes fixed on the gradually extending prairie fire.
At length the newcomer drew a final puff of smoke, which he sent forth through his mouth and nostrils, and returned his calumet to his girdle.
Black Bear asked, shaking the ash out of his calumet on his thumb.
Eagle-head, alone of the party, wrapped up in his buffalo robe, smoked his calumet with that stoicism and calm appearance which belong exclusively to his race.
They will take their place at the council fire, and smoke with their brothers the calumetof peace.
Then the pipe bearer entered and presented the calumet to each warrior, who drew two or three puffs of tobacco.
Does it please you, chiefs of my nation, to receive them, and admit them to smoke the calumet of peace round our council fire.
At length, when the calumet bowls contained only ashes, the Black Bear turned with a courteous smile to the Jester.
In their extremity they sent forth a herald, bearing the calumet or pipe of peace, but he was shot down by order of the Blackbird.
Marquette hastened to display the calumet which the Illinois had given him by way of passport; and the Indians, recognizing the pacific symbol, replied with an invitation to land.
They danced the calumet before him; while an Indian, taking him, with an air of great respect, by the shoulders as he sat, shook him in cadence with the thumping of the drum.
The engine is 4,700 horse power, and, in addition to driving the pumping machinery, does the hoisting and air compressing for the Calumet mine.
The Calumet & Hecla Mining Company has also an extensive pumping plant at its stamp mills, which are located on the shore of Torch Lake, about four and a half miles from the mine.
The largest plant of this type yet erected is that of theCalumet and Hecla copper mine, at Calumet, Mich.
He might lay by his lance, and commence smoking the calumet of peace.
Emblem of peace in council, when profound The sacred calumet goes slowly round!
The calumet soon went the round of the assembly and returned to Tahi-Mari, who finished it.
The calumet thus went round the circle till it returned to the old Indian, who seemed to preside over the meeting.
They smoke in the calumet of peace, and are friends because you wish them to be so.
The calumet of the savages, is properly the tube of peace, but they comprehend under this name the pipe also, as well as its tube.
They sent a deputation of their principal warriors, with the sacred calumet (1) and the belt of peace, to the sons of their grandfather.
But they made a firm peace with the Rattlesnakes, which lasted till the coming of the Big-knives, when the latter broke the calumet of peace by biting an Indian, whom they mistook for a white man.
In trade, when they have agreed upon the exchange, they present a calumet to confirm it, which readers it, in some manner, sacred.
The custom is to smoke in the calumet when you accept it, and perhaps there is no instance where the agreement has been violated, which was made by this acceptance.
He was not asked, nor even allowed, to perform any labor, was always supplied with the choicest food the camp afforded, and was the first to whom the calumet was handed upon the conclusion of a meal.
He did present the calumetto you," replied the other, with a meaning intonation.
Thus saying, the chief stepped forward and laid the gorgeouscalumet across the knees of Major Hester, while a grunt of approbation came from the throats of those behind him.
Seems to me if I've got to go down to the Calumetjob Sunday night I might have an hour or so at home.
New Year's Day would be a holiday, and there was room on the distributing floor for every man who had worked an hour on the job since the first spile had been driven home in the Calumet clay.
A fellow down in Chicago told me if I'd come out here to Calumet K and ask Mr. Bannon for a job, he'd give me one.
But the section boss had received instructions that caused him to be wide-awake, day or night, to what was going on in the neighborhood of Calumet K.
The laborers on Calumet K, with some others at work in the neighborhood, had organized into a lodge and had affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
Just as a man running for a car is the safest mark for a gamin's snowball, so Calumet K, through being a rush job as well as a rich one, offered a particularly advantageous field for Grady's endeavors.
The situation was not easy, but he had been sent to Calumet to get the work done in time, and he meant to do it.
Twenty-two hundred thousand has got to be in the bins there at Calumet before the first of January unless the Day of Judgment happens along before then.
Rumors of the way things were going at Calumet under the hands of his younger co-laborer had reached Bannon, and he was not greatly surprised when MacBride told him to go to Chicago Sunday night and supersede Peterson.
The sidewalks at Calumet are at the theoretical grade of the district, that is, about five feet above the actual level of the ground.
And so it was that the newspapers learned that on the chance of completing Calumet K before the thirty-first of December hung the whole question of winning and losing; that if Bannon should fail, Page would be short two million bushels.
He smoked the calumet with them, then whispered that they should go through the village proclaiming the feast and bidding the guests whom he named.
The odour of the buffalo was believed to be agreeable to the Great Spirit so that the tobacco or kinnikinick of the calumet was flavoured with animal's excrement in order that the aroma wafted upward might be most pleasing.
He lighted his calumet of red, baked clay, bowed his head in silence, then held the stem in the direction of the herds.
I think Charlevoix mistook another dance for the calumet dance, especially as he confesses they did him (the commandant) none of the honours which are mentioned.
I did not see the calumet presented to him, and there were no men holding the calumet in their hands.
The calumet was also adorned with feathers, and was set up in the most conspicuous place.
Onontio, he said, pretended to have come to smoke the calumet of peace, but the pretence was false: he had come to make war, and would have done so but for the sickness of his men.
He thanked Onontio for bringing back the calumet of peace, and congratulated him that he had not dug up the hatchet that had so often been red with the blood of his countrymen.
To accept the calumet is to agree to terms of peace, and to refuse it is to reject them.
The calumet of peace is used to seal or ratify contracts and alliances, and as an evidence to strangers that they are welcome.
But it was his being a Sauk that chained him so irrevocably to Victoire--the afternoon he smoked the calumet with Star Arrow--the Turtle calling on him to be guardian of this land.
Pierre closed his eyes wearily, his fingertips still resting on the calumet that lay across his chest.
A short time later White Bear was back at Pierre's side with the feather-bedecked calumet and a lit candle protected by a glass chimney.
For six years--he had learned to count years as white people did--he had obeyed his father and the promise made with the calumet and had not tried even to send a message to the British Band.
At the end of it all, I lay in the lean-to and I heard a voice say that if someone would smoke the calumet there would be peace.
If even one man of Black Hawk's party smoked the calumet with Wave, that would oblige Black Hawk and his remaining braves to surrender to the Winnebago and make peace.
He put the calumet to his lips and pulled the hot smoke into his mouth.
Please," Wave pleaded, "is there not a man here wise and strong enough to smoke the calumet and save the lives of his people?
But if White Bear really loved her, could he not have broken that rule--even if he had smoked the calumet with Star Arrow--at least once?
Bust of President Grant, facing the right; under it, a calumet of peace and a branch of laurel.
General Washington in uniform and bareheaded, standing, facing the left, has just given the calumet of peace to an Indian chief, who is smoking it.
Hence, whenever they pass they offer sacrifices; they present the calumet to the tutelary spirits and manes of Tchatka.
Here, as every where else in the Indian country, the everlastingcalumet was first produced, which went round two or three times in the most profound silence.
Among the nations of the West the calumet is looked upon with equal reverence, whether in peace or war.
They smoke the calumet to confirm their treaties and alliances.
He assumed immediately a milder countenance, ordered his men to lay down their arms, and we performed the ceremonies of shaking hands and smoking the calumet of peace.
They were received as friends, and four of the principals were ushered into the Missionary's lodge; they smoked the calumet and discussed the news of the day.
In time of war, the calumet and all its ornaments are red.
Experience has taught them that the smoke of the calumet dispels the vapors of the brain, aids them to think and judge with greater accuracy and precision, and excites their courage.
It was accompanied with all the antics for which the Crows are so famous, when they offer the calumet to the Great Spirit, to the four winds, to the sun, fire, earth and water.
The smoking of the calumet forms a part of all their religious ceremonies.
He will sit down and smoke the calumet with as much indifference as if he had been successful in the chase.
Pierre au Calumet receives its name from the place where the stone is procured, of which many of the pipes used by the Canadians and Indians are made.
When the viands had disappeared each filled his calumet and began to smoke with great assiduity, and in the course of the evening several songs were sung to the responsive sounds of the drum and seeseequay, their usual accompaniments.
After the calumethad been replenished the person who then commenced repeated only the latter part of the ceremony, pointing the stem to the heavens, the earth and the fire.
We smoked the calumet in the chief's tent, whose name was the Thumb, and distributed some tobacco and a weak mixture of spirits and water among the men.
He next took up a calumet filled with a mixture of tobacco and bear-berry leaves and, holding its stem by the middle in a horizontal position over the hot stones, turned it slowly in a circular manner, following the course of the sun.
Fifteen years ago the site of the present town was nothing but a waste of sand-dunes and swamps intersected from east to west by the Grand Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers.
The plant of the United States Steel Corporation, located between the Grand Calumet River and the Lake, have the most complete system of steel mills west of Pittsburgh.
The great chief has a wampum belt on his shoulder, and a calumet in his hand.
They described them, moreover, as being the hereditary enemies of their great father, the King of France, with whose governors they had buried the hatchet for ever, and smoked the calumet of perpetual peace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calumet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clay; corncob; hookah; meerschaum; parley; pipe
