It was laughable to see the stampede among the redskinswhen they saw this ominous maneuver--they thought he was going to fire the "smoke wagon.
Has not the time come when the broad acres of the Indian reservation, which the redskins are doing little with, should be thrown open to the plough of the white man?
Grummidge in an undertone, "the redskins are listening.
The redskins know all the hunting grounds on the Gila," he said.
They were certainly redskins encamped there in the desert at a short distance from his party.
This grass had burned rapidly, producing what the incendiaries desired--a large quantity of smoke, but scarcely heating the ground, which had allowed the redskins to march rapidly on the colony.
These devils of redskins know the desert thoroughly and he can serve as our guide.
The redskins and the palefaces each follow the path the Great Spirit has traced for them.
The Comanches beat up the country with that cleverness and skill the redskins possess to so eminent a degree, but all was useless.
In spite of all the precautions he had taken, the Tigrero could not flatter himself with the hope of having foiled them; for the redskins are so clever in discovering a trail.
The expedition began under favourable auspices: twice were the redskins surprised by the French at an interval of a few days, and mercilessly massacred.
The collision was terrible; the redskinsdid not give way an inch.
The redskinsgo fast, especially when flying; they have an immense advance on us, as the ill success of our efforts proves: it would be madness to hope to catch them.
In their excursions upon Indian territory the redskins never fail to stop at this island and deposit their offerings, the ceremony consisting in throwing into the water, with dancing, tobacco, hair, and birds feathers.
Then finding I had learnt sufficient of the expedition the redskins were undertaking, I slipped away and regained our camp as soon as possible.
It was probably owing to this apparently futile circumstance that this placer had not yet been discovered by the Indians, for the redskins never, under any circumstances, dismount.
I see no harm in your forgiving the Indians, for that may produce a good effect among the tribes, especially as the redskins have an excellent memory, and will long remember the severe lesson they received this night.
This time they will fight by the side of the redskins against the whites.
The redskins obeyed, and the question was left to be decided between Don Louis and the sachem.
I remember when I was about five or six years old a number of Indians were gathered in our house and I climbed a post, sitting on the same to watch the redskins race their horses.
The sentinel, who was an Irishman, insisted that there had certainly beenredskins there.
The teamsters, seeing the Indians and hearing the shots, came rushing forward to our assistance, but by that time the redskins had almost disappeared from view.
As shure ez me name's Pat Maloney, one of them redskins hit me on the head with a club, so he did," said Pat.
The companies all fell into line, and were soon prepared and anxious to give the redskins battle; but as the men were yet new in the Indian country a great many of them were considerably excited.
The sentinel, an Irishman, insisted that there certainly had beenredskins there.
But most of the redskins were either hidden among the marshes, or had got clear away to the surrounding hills.
From her we learned that the redskins we were pursuing were known as the Pawnee Killer band.
These redskinshad been hanging about Fort Larned that morning.
As I entered the camp I wrapped my blanket, Indian fashion, about my head, so that the redskins would not at once recognize me as a white man.
Though the redskins had an hour and a half start on us, we followed them, on a gallop, till we could see that they had begun to drive their horses in a circle, and then in one direction after another, making the trail uncertain.
An expedition was going out of Fort McPherson to catch and punish theredskins if possible.
All these bands were ugly and belligerent, and it was plain from the spirit they showed that there had been a general understanding among all the redskins thereabout that the time had come to drive the white man from the country.
The redskins had been killing buffalo, and the evidences of their work were very plain.
We decided to wait until the moon rose, and then make a sudden dash, taking the redskins by surprise.
Never before had the redskins been followed so far into their own country.
The thievish redskins also drove stock repeatedly from the stations.
A large party of redskinswas known to be encamped at Walnut Creek, on the direct road to Fort Hays.
He looked up inquiring, as if to ask if we had punished the redskins who pursued us.
We met many Redskins in the woods, all busy hunting.
Charge upon our camp the moment you get sight of it; make your redskins shout like fiends, and ride forward, brandishing their spears.
Luckily these redskins don't know the different values of the goods; so I shall bestow the cotton prints with a liberal hand, keeping the better sorts to myself.
Them redskins was on the march, an' that geezer had ter follow 'em, er else starve ter death.
This yere stagecoach ain't much of a fort to keep off a bunch o' redskins once they git their mad up.
I shouldn't mind if there were a pack of Redskinscoming behind me if I was on his back.
We could have shot, but Steve reckoned it was too great a risk; so he and Jim undertook to crawl forward while Broncho and me wur to keep ready to shoot if the Redskins made a bolt.
Cross-questioning the black, we found that the Redskins had been seen on the previous day, so that should they have fallen in with Rochford, they could not as yet have got very far away.
It is to be hoped the Redskins won't be any better off than we are in this respect, and will soon get tired of blazing away to no purpose," he answered.
Could they have had any communication with the Redskins hovering about our camp?
Not that I, for my part, believe the Redskins will ever venture to come near us.
Sure that's not the band of Redskinsthat set our fellows running so hard!
The Redskins require to be kept in order," he remarked.
It's my belief that the Redskins have taken themselves off as far as they can get from the whites, and won't be eager to meet any of us.
Even the Redskins would not refuse to help us; but I'm afther thinkin' they're either white men or blacks.
The Redskins will have to clear away the ashes before they can get in, an' we shall then have an opportunity of shooting down not a few of them when they do that.
Spotted Wolf will tell the Redskins that you have been with us," he said.
How he had escaped from the Redskins it was difficult to say.
On the contrary, they longed for the coming of the light that should enable them to see the redskins through the sights of their rifles, and complained only that it was too slow in coming.
The Redskins Fire the Grass, but a Lucky Turn of the Wind Saves the Soldiers from the Intended Holocaust.
Armed with a revolver each, we gave those Redskins a warm reception; and though the bullets rattled on the rocks behind us like the hail on our window panes, Ben, they retired discomfited.
But the Redskins were beaten, Ben, at length, as Redskins always have been in the long run who crossed sword or spear against civilised man.
I suppose we shall see these redskins again by to-morrow.
I think we had better do as the redskins did--ride their horses, and lead the others.
There was seldom any undergrowth in the forest, but this place appeared to have been chosen by the redskins for the purpose of presenting to us the very difficulty we now encountered.
It will be easier to cut some more than to let the redskins use them.
Those are the redskins who stole our horses," said I to Kit Cruncher.
He used a solid shot, and smashed the boat so that the redskinshad to swim ashore.
I ain't sartin there ain't some redskins 'tween hyer and the clearing.
I don't reckon it makes any matter who I am; but I want to see the cap'n, and show him whar the redskins is.
While we were all watching the spot where the path entered the forest, a couple of redskins emerged from its shades, and hurried towards the Castle.
It looked like a slow and lazy fight, and I was afraid the main body of the redskins would attack the lieutenant before we could reach him with the gun.
Yes; them pesky redskins is gittin' troublesome, and I'm afraid we shall hev to wipe out some on 'em.
After the defeat of Braddock, in 1755, the French and the redskinswreaked their vengeance upon the terrified frontier settlements.
It was his task to let loose the redskins that they might burn the cabins of the settlers on the border, and kill their women and children, or carry them into captivity.
Before his meeting with Washington, Arnold had hurried spies into Canada to find out the enemy's strength; and he had also sent Indians with wampum, to make friends with the redskins along the St. Lawrence.
Well, Heald, from my knowledge of Indian nature I must say that whoever goes forth now to confer with yonder redskins has a desperate mission; but if you are still determined upon such a conference, I will take my chances with you.
Reenforcements drove the redskins back to their entrenchments, and renewed confidence.
On the other hand, slaying redskins became the passion of the whites, and it is probable that many of their expeditions seemed failures if blood was not spilt.
They all looked on redskins like they was catamounts an' other pesky varmints.
He was a sure shot with the rifle so's he could beat the redskins at their own game.
On the morrow, at sunrise, the Redskins left the hacienda, to which they did not once return during the whole of the war, which lasted three years.
Unhappily, the sun was on the point of setting, and it was evident that the Redskins had calculated their march so as to arrive exactly at that moment, and continue the attack through the night.
The Redskins are right," he muttered, "and their proverb is true.
The Redskins elected an emperor and established a government; they displayed a settled intention of definitively regaining their independence and reconstituting their nationality.
Night set in, and a deep gloom covered the earth; but the redskins lit no fires.
The Redskins behaved, under the circumstances, with rare prudence and circumspection, in order not to alarm the persons they wished to surprise.
The historical portion of the book being accompanied with numerous thrilling adventures with the redskins on the shores of Lake Huron, a story of exciting interest is interwoven with the general narrative and carried through the book.
The son of an American loyalist, who remains true to our flag, falls among the hostile redskins in that very Huron country which has been endeared to us by the exploits of Hawkeye and Chingachgook.
The war paint of the redskinsstood out in deep contrast to the pure white of the floats.
Say, but I'd like to see some of these redskins trying to cut a furrer down that sage brush flat or sittin' at one of them desks doin' sums in 'rithmetic.
Yes," said Cal, "and these redskins are not much to blame for goin' on the warpath the way they are bamboozled about.
There is, of course, a good deal of difference between lacrosse as played by the whites to-day and as it was played by the redskins half a century ago.
We're to scalp the redskins and Cameron, though 'tis not known.
You'll not go to Kaintuckee, ma'am; you'll stay here with us until the redskins are beaten off there.
Tom; "Captain John Sevier, king of the border, and I reckon the best man to sweep out redskins in the Watauga settlements.
Nor would she listen to Tom when he implored her to let him return alone, to come back for her when the redskins had got over the first furies of their hatred.
Sure the redskins is as toired as us, and gone home to the wives and childher, bad cess to thim.
They tell me that Lamothe has a very pretty force of redskins at his heels.
It come from those who blazed their way out here and druv the redskins off.
An army of redskins has crossed the Ohio, and not a man to take command.
Redskins they were, but not the blanketed kind that drifted every day through the station.
At last, when the sun was over the stream, rose such Indian war-whoops and shots from the ridge trail as made me think the redskins were upon us.
There'll be redskinsenough by and by, I'll warrant ye.
What would you do if a scoundrel named Hamilton far away at Detroit was bribing all the redskins he could find north of the Ohio to come down and scalp your men?
Whin there's no redskins to kill they must be wastin' good powdher on a three.
He told us there was no fear of redskins here, yet, when the scream of a painter or the hoot of an owl stirred me from my exhausted slumber, I caught sight of him with his back to a tree, staring into the forest, his rifle at his side.
How are the redskins to be beaten if they are not cowed in their own country?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redskins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
