She would not have allowed any other squawto cook for her, any more than she herself would have condescended to fry a cake for any one below the rank of her own husband and his family.
A chief would almost as soon take advice from a squaw as from a "boy.
He hardly liked to say as much to a squaw, even such a young squaw as Ni-ha-be, and his own sister, but he had some questions to ask her nevertheless.
The poor child, terrified, and ashamed of being so, made an uncertain movement towards the door, when the squaw suddenly laid her hand upon her arm.
I think, too, that the squaw who was here yesterday may be one of his people.
Is not it strange the sight of an Indian or a squaw always throws me into a kind of panic.
Occasionally a settler catching a squaw in the act would give her a whipping--which only increased the tension of the situation.
The squaw kept up a howling such as a squaw in distress only can make.
Finally the captive was relieved by a Yankton squawwho told her that there was no truth in these explanations, since the council had decided that she was to be freed by sale to the stranger Indians who would take her back to the whites.
The squaw whom he led at the beginning of his dash for the river was taken prisoner in the hope that she might assist in identifying the Indian who had been killed, as well as give information about other inhabitants of the camp.
Here Mrs. Marble was given clothing and as good care as the means of Spirit Walker and his squaw would permit.
The Indian and his family hunted us up in a few days at the fort, but the old squaw and the two children were not with them.
A squawselected a fat-looking dog, and tied him fast in some secluded place for several days, giving him nothing to eat, and only water to drink.
A squaw made a pair of buffalo skin boots for me with the hair inside and large enough to wear over my shoes.
The squaw would sit for many hours turning and basting the carcass with melted fat.
The Indian with the other squaw slept opposite the opening to the lodge.
The sergeant and I got them something to eat, and bought the squaw a few things in the sutler's store.
The two children slept at the foot of the young squaw's bed next to the door, while the old squaw was left defenceless and alone to sleep at our feet on the other side of the door.
With a firebrand the squaw burnt off every hair on his body close to the skin, and rubbed him with buffalo fat.
September 22nd--Old Andre with hissquaw came aboard this morning.
Senora Dominga was very talkative; there was another old squaw at the house on a visit, and the tongues of the two were going at a great rate the whole evening, using only the Tupi language.
The squaw dreaded the violence of her father when he should discover what had transpired, and enjoined it upon me to shield the victim, if possible, from the storm of his wrath.
After descending the opposite side of the hill, they entered the dingle at its base to which the young squaw had alluded.
A squaw man is one who does a woman's work, or a white man who marries an Indian woman.
The namesquaw came into general use and spread all over the United States and Canada, was carried to the western tribes of Indians by the whites, and was used by all whites and all Indians.
A squaw man, that is, a white man with an Indian wife, was sent from the Fort with a paper to St. Louis, that had something to do with paying the Indians their annuities by the Government.
The woman was a squaw typical in looks and bearing, with the straight black hair, dark skin, and stolid look of her race.
He thought that the shot came from the cliffs just at the head of Squaw Creek cañon.
A rifle across his arm, he was looking up at the cliffs of Squaw Creek cañon.
Miller with the pay-roll money has been held up and robbed at Squaw Creek," she told them swiftly.
An old tradition says that an Indian squaw had been sent to warn the inhabitants, under cover of selling brooms.
Dominic Tassomacher was being entertained with chocolate at the home of a charming widow of his parish when the squaw entered to deliver her message.
The squaw offered her four coppers, all the change she had about her.
The next moment the discharge of a rifle, and the deep baying of the dog, woke up the sleeping echoes of the woods; and the girl started off to help the old squaw to bring in the game that she had shot.
Fine grapes--brought them from island, for my friend's squaw and papouses.
He had been very successful, and having killed more deer than they could well carry home, he went to the house of a white man to dispose of some of it, leaving the squaw to take care of the rest until his return.
A great way off the animal must have been, for though Emilia and I listened at the open door, an advantage which the squaw did not enjoy, we could not hear the least sound: all seemed still as death.
The old squaw had a very pleasing countenance, but I tried in vain to draw her into conversation.
Tom Nogan, the chief's brother, had a very large, fat ugly squaw for his wife.
I learned from Joe Muskrat's squawsome days after that the boy died a few minutes after Elizabeth Iron, his mother, got home.
One has a grotesque resemblance to an aged bishop in his vestments and is known as the Bishop Rock; another a more remote likeness to an Indian woman, and this is known as the Squaw Rock.
One store now serves all ends of trade, one liquor shop serves all the desire for drink of the whites, and slops over through the agency of two or three dissolute squaw men and half-breeds to the natives up and down the river.
Then when I have rolled you stiff in your blanket will I take the White Squaw to my wigwam!
I see that you come in no bitterness, and the White Squaw shall go as you say.
And when even the veins of squaw and husky thrilled with excess of vigor, the tremendous swelling and merging of the passion that absorbed Desiree and Dunvegan could be vaguely gauged.
Among other exhibitions was that of a squaw who appeared to be crazy.
After eating the marrow of the shank-bones, the squaw chopped them fine, and by boiling extracted a pint of grease, superior to the tallow itself of the animal.
In it he placed a mat of reeds which his good squaw had woven with great care.
Better that you should die than that boy and squaw should cry 'Shame' upon your father's son.
The Otta half-chief[132] and hissquaw have taken tea with and frequently visited us.
Our children were all full of play with them, and the squaw nursed the younger ones.
The Otta half-chief and squaw afterwards saw it together and were very well pleased.
I 'll begin making my camp outfit to-morrow; and Andre pere shall teach me to fish and paddle a canoe; his son shall teach me woodcraft, and some Montagnais squaw shall show me how to weave baskets.
From time to time I surprised the same expression on his face when he was silent, smoking and, at the same time, watching me weave my baskets under the tutelage of a Montagnaise, the squaw of our postman.
You tell me be homely old squaw like Mrs. Ghost-Dog, I be homely so dogs yell to look on me.
Annie-Many-Ponies has got a heart-twisting smile, but she's a squaw just the same.
Somehow he could not "see" his cattleman as one who would set aside the barrier of race and take a squaw for his wife.
As the flames rose and the smoke grew thick, a warrior in one of the houses sang his death-song, and a squaw in the same house was heard to cry and scream.
Here--for his tastes were not fastidious--presided for many years a Dutch or German wench whom he finally married; and after her death a young Mohawk squaw took her place.
Dad, we didn't find any hide over by Squaw Butte," he announced abruptly.
He had been with his own outfit, and if he had ridden past Squaw Butte that night he must have gone out from the ranch and come back again.
During supper Lance criticized Squaw Creek, and hinted that Mill Creek and Lava Creek were better fishing waters, and that he meant to try them.
Farther up the valley an abrupt curve in Squaw Creek barred his way with scraggly, thin willow growth that had winding cow trails running through it.
Old Douglas says there's a hide in the willows this side of Squaw Butte, with the brand cut out; a spotted yearling, and he claims it's his and he can swear to it without the brand.
He had ridden past Squaw Butte the night after Tom Lorrigan was accused by Douglas.
For instance, an AJ man had seen him riding over by Squaw Butte, on the night after Douglas had accused him of stealing the spotted yearling.
You can ask this man what he knows about any spotted hide over by Squaw Butte," he invited the Douglas stiffly.
On the other hand, why had Tom Lorrigan ridden to Squaw Butte that night?
If they had not, then they would have turned again up Squaw Creek, and it would be short work cutting straight across to the only possible trail to the higher country.
The outfits had been carefully parcelled out to the Indians, Salmon Head carrying a load of over a hundred and twenty-five pounds, his squaw carrying a hundred pounds, and the sons loads of about half that weight.
The big Indian, who rejoiced in the name of Salmon Head, was waiting for an answer, his squaw and two boys standing close by.
The squaw was a tall, thin woman of forty, whose face was painted a greasy black down to the tip of her nose, the balance of her countenance being left its natural color, yellowish red.
Neither warrior nor squaw gave any sign of having noticed the little incident, but among the women looks were exchanged as the great borderer was conducted to the council-house.
The descendants from such mixed marriages are not to be confused with some of the Western squaw men’s offsprings of later times.
In a hovel he found Rosie, a Piute squawwith a brood of children.
The earliest American settler at Resting Springs remembered by old timers was Philander Lee, a rough and somewhat eccentric squaw man.
Almost all of the first settlers were squaw men and the matings were tolerated because they were understood.
Sam put his squaw Nancy, away, moved to the city and married a white woman.
It was often a long journey to obtain the sanction of a Chief and the squaw was taken without formality.
Living in a wickiup in the mesquite was the Indian, Tom Weed, who shared with his squaw a passion for liquor.
So he took what the market afforded--a squaw and not infrequently two or three.
It was five days almost to the hour when Ann Cowboy, a Piute squaw came to the store with an Indian boy who couldn't speak English; nodded at the boy and said to Charlie: "Him see.
When I got within a few yards three or four naked squaw hags scurried into the brush.
Thus the evil spirits were kept away and the souls of Tom and his squaw passed happily to the Piute heaven which is a place where there is a big lake and forests filled with game and the squaws are strong and plentiful.
Yundt was a squawman and his children, Sam, Lee, and John followed the father in taking squaws for their wives.
Mary was a squaw who, after consorting with several white men, chose for her mate a half-breed named Bob Scott.
Kinsey would have had little joy in his search for perversion or infidelities, though there is the instance of a drunken squaw who aroused the owner of a saloon at midnight on the Ash Meadows desert and shouted: "I want a man.
At times there was no money, but piñon nuts grew in the mountains, desert tea and squaw cabbage were handy and the beans of mesquite could be ground into flour.
The kind squaw had put on his feet some warm dry socks, and then began chafing his hands, and in a short time he again fell asleep.
A squaw was chafing his feet, while another, bending over the fire, was cooking a mess of broth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: concubine; dame; dowager; gentlewoman; girl; helpmate; lady; lass; matron; rib; squaw; wife; woman
