So the next morning, the bronze head of every Indian tepeehold took his pony, his dogs, his squaw, and his papooses of indefinite number to the powwow ground.
The merry-go-round held as many squaws and papooses and stolid bucks as it did whites.
By this time there were hundreds of bucks and squaws and papooses around the Chief's wigwam.
I knew that they were a hunting party because their squaws and papooses were with them, which is never the case if the warriors are on the war path.
The Miami woman had grown tired of her charge, so unlike the papooses of the Indian mothers.
She kept her house and little garden, made bead work and embroidery for the officers and official ladles, and cared for her little papooses with unwonted mother love.
At the schoolhouse the pupils were studious, but several of them had to care forpapooses while studying, and the Indians were peering into the doors and windows, watching proceedings.
I had been reading extensively about Indians, so knew when I saw their squaws and papooses with them that they were friendly--in fact, rather too familiar.
The teepees were searched, the squaws and papooses were ruthlessly bundled out from their slumbers and with the Indians were huddled into the Barracks.
He found Crowfoot alone beside his fire, except for the squaws that were cleaning up after the evening meal and the papooses and older children rolling about on the grass.
The cold became so intense that on the night after the fight elevenpapooses froze to death in their mothers' arms, and the succeeding night, three others.
If you'll just tell the truth nobody's going to know through me anything about your former wives, nor how many half-breed papooses claim you.
Down on the Washita River their own squaws and papooses were safe in their tepees too far from civilization for any retaliatory measure to reach them.
Black Kettle and his noble braves were not hurrying southward toward their squaws and papooses with the liberal supplies issued to them by the Government.
Star knew that the Comanche braves, squaws, and papooses would soon awaken and come out wrapped in blankets which had been woven by the squaws and dyed in bright colours made from roots and berries.
The squaws tell their papooses the great deeds of their forefathers, that none will forget, that the young boys may become great warriors, while the girls grow to be worthy squaws and train their own sons to live with honour.
These were mostly headed townward in wagons and rickety old buggies, with the men riding dignifiedly on the spring seat and the squaws and papooses sitting flat in the bottom behind.
They summoned their squaws and their half-grown papooses armed with branches that had stiff twigs and answered the purpose of brooms.
There were Indians wearing their blankets and the women dressed in bright gay colors with their papooses strapped on their backs in their Indian cradles.
The Indian Chief Ossawinamakee sent two of his Indians with their wives and papooses to live near John until spring came.
There are morepapooses at the Reservation since he come back, and over in Lebanon--!
He spoke forked words like serpent tongue when he say that white man sent Red Fox to bring papooses to Indian camp.
Still Red Fox made no sign to show interest, and the other went on-- "At Crane Creek two white papooses live in tent.
On their bed of grass my littlepapooses also sleep," he said, lifting the basket so as to show the tangle of green bodies that it contained.
They find Red Fox, and they say: 'Go, find our papooses and lead them by straight trail to our tent.
So white men wish papooses to follow where Red Fox walk.
Even the young papooseswere putting "tongue in cheek" towards him, and some of the women could be seen pointing their fingers at his discomfited self.
It would gladden the eyes of the pale-faces to see their papooses by another sun?
He found that he was in an Indian settlement on Buffalo Creek, where he was left alone day after day with the old men and squaws and papooses while the men of the tribe were away on the big fall hunt.
At last the feast was over, the music ceased, the fire died down, and squaws, bucks, and papooses slowly dispersed.
The squaws with their papooses strapped on their backs stood stolidly about, some in blankets, some in ugly calico "Mother Hubbard" wrappers.
Squaws, old and young, papooses of either sex, and all the components of an Indian mob, were crowding around the white captive.
We had reached the back of Granite Creek Station, which was then kept by Allen Simmons, from Oroville, and a man of the name of Bill Curry, when we fell in with some eight or ten Mahalas, with their papooses or children.
Willis' soldiers fired into the Indian camp, where dwelt something like 1500 Indians, mostly old squaws and papooses with a few able-bodied warriors.
They had not long to wait, for presently they saw marching towards them a long file of brilliantly dressed Indians, squaws, papooses and larger children.
It was yet very early in the morning, and most of the braves were lying asleep inside their wigwams, dogs and papooses seeming to have matters pretty much their own way outside.
A wild scene of confusion followed our entry into the camp; braves and squaws, dogs and papooses crowded round, and it was difficult work to get to the door of the little shanty where the Hudson Bay officer dwelt.
The women and the papooses would remain in the safe background.
She helps us teach the little papooses because she believes in the 'God of the white folks,' she says.
And the papooses forget our tongue, and they make words out of strange drawings which the white med'cine man makes on a board.
She was free to watch the squaws, and the papooses she loved so well.
Many papooses come, and they grow up like their fathers.
Guess he was one o' them fellers always ready to scare squaws an' papooses an' things.
I don't know whatever the little papooses at the Mission will do without me.
The papooses of the Indian make the white man happy," he said simply.
I have seen them place papooses in this rude vehicle and the old pony wandered at will over the prairie.
He was not accustomed to take his squaw and papooses to any foreign watering place to spend the summer.
When the beast fell, the squaws, papooses and dogs came along to do the skinning and oversee the division of the meat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "papooses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
