One of the Indians spoke a little Illinois, and served as interpreter; a friendly conference was followed by a feast of sagamite and fish; and the travellers, not without sore misgivings, spent the night in the lodges of their entertainers.
Here they were regaled with sagamite or Indian porridge, corn-cake, beans, bread made of the meal of parched corn, and another kind of bread made of the kernels of nuts and the seed of sunflowers.
The sagamite he had learned to tolerate, but the maize cakes were so excellent it seemed as if he could never get enough of them.
There were little booths here and there where squaws were cooking sagamite and selling it in queer dishes made of gourds.
During the speeches on either side, food was brought in without ceasing; sometimes a platter of sagamite or mush; sometimes of corn boiled whole; sometimes a roasted dog.
This sagamitetook the place of bread with the Indians.
The bride then presents the young man with sagamite or corn-cakes and sometimes with wood, in token of what is to be her duty in the lodge.
Striking his hatchet through a kettle of sagamite to signify thus would he break peace to all Radisson's foes, the old Iroquois warrior made a speech to the assembled guests.
Radisson's Iroquois father held great feasts in which he heaved up the hatchet to break the kettle of sagamite against all enemies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sagamite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
