The "Powwowing Days" were the mellow days in the latter part of February, when the red men in council made their medicine and learned of their redder gods whether or no they should take the warpath when the sap pulsed the trees into leaf.
I condemned it, and I have issued orders that no such acts will be tolerated or allowed; that the Indians on the warpath must be fought wherever and whenever found, but no outrages or barbarities must be committed.
They take the warpath against your enemies as against their own, and ye are glad in the day of battle when they fight the Frenchman by your side.
He will not be long, for he will keep the warpath night and day till he is here, and his wings are swift.
The palefaces take the warpath against each other," said another of the Indians, after gazing for a moment or two.
The palefaces have taken the warpath against each other, and the allies of the Black Eagle have called upon him to take wing and help them.
The boy I sent on with my people, for the children of the Stone have taken the warpath for England, and a thousand warriors are on their way to the place of the sounding waters.
As De Soto advanced he found the savages on the warpath ready to drive back the invaders.
These Indians on the warpath did not know of the presence of the little American army until some wrathful Kentuckians fell upon and killed every one of them in plain view of Hamilton and his soldiers.
Some tribes were so savage and unfriendly that the white travelers were afraid to shoot game for food, or even to build a fire lest a band of Indians on the warpath should see it and come to kill and scalp them all.
When the southern Indians went on the warpath and massacred white settlers, General Jackson and his troops from Tennessee drove them from place to place and killed nearly all the savage murderers.
Marija goes on the warpath straight off, without even the preliminary of a good cursing, and when she is pulled off it is with the coat collars of two villains in her hands.
Every Creek town or individual could go on the warpath or stay at home, in spite of any wish or decree issued by the chiefs or assembled warriors.
When the Great Warrior started on the warpath he gave notice to the participants where he would strike camp that night, and then set out, sometimes with one or two men only.
When out on the warpath the leader was called imísi, immíssi, q.
The rumor was that soon they meant to go on the warpath again.
It looks like more proof that the Sioux are on the warpath and are to the eastward of us, fighting our own people.
The Sioux, I suppose, are on the warpath elsewhere, and they don't like mountains much, anyhow.
Now my warriors will not go on the warpath without a valise, and some of them want to carry their dinner.
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For a time he made remarkable progress, and so stirred the Indians that at last they started on the warpathagainst the English.
When rumors came of Indians on the warpath the children took turns on the housetop as lookout for the dread savages.
The Indians used every part, and they knew this great slaughter of the buffalo meant starvation for them, so they went on the warpath in self-defense.
I couldn't be easy a minute, with old Hagar on the warpath the way she is.
What's the matter with us boys going on the warpath ourselves?
You can't make that warpath business stick, Clark--not with all them squaws.
A party of Miamis who were on the warpath returned by another route.
This glaring falsehood was told in the face of the fact that the Little Turtle himself had been out on the warpath only the winter before, returning with captives and plunder.
The Indians of the St. John river, who had been fairly quiet for some years, took the warpath with great alacrity.
During the Revolutionary war he paid special attention to the Indians on the River St. John, who largely through his efforts were kept from taking the warpath and going over to the Americans.
Let us go on the warpath for them," said Big Turtle.
So the man on the warpath took as many horses as he pleased.
What if they should go on the warpath when you arrive?
Mary, too, thanked God that the Okoyongs were not on the warpathand she asked God's blessing on her visit with them.
When they have been successful, either on the warpath or in the chase, they immediately return to their friends to celebrate their good fortune with them.
He say he take us on warpath to help keep palefaces from going into Kantuckee.
In their long journeys on the warpath they often traversed on foot six or eight hundred miles of country, carrying, during a part of the time, very heavy loads.
The people went out on the winter hunt and killed buffalo, and while they were on their way back to the village, I started on the warpath with a number of young men.
After he had been home ten days, he told his mother to make for him five pairs of moccasins, that he was going on the warpath for himself.
Now, it had happened that before this boy was born his mother had been left alone at home, for his father had gone on the warpath toward the enemy, and this was about five or six months before the babe would be born.
After returning home--the same year--he led a party to go off on the warpath to the Cheyennes.
One time, long ago, a big party of Pawnees went on the warpath down to the south.
A party starting off on the warpath prayed for success and made a burnt offering.
He said to him, "My brother, when we were on the warpath a year ago, and I took those two spotted horses, I heard a little noise in the lodge by which they were tied.
After he had come to be a man, he started out once on the warpath with a party of about thirty-five others.
Then he said, "Brother, I want you to know that there is a tribe of your enemies getting ready to go on the warpath against you.
Now, there was once a Pawnee boy, who went off on the warpathto the Cheyenne camp.
The boy said to him, "A long time ago I came south on the warpath to steal horses.
Probably they had been on the warpath and had lost their horses.
Even in his efforts to keep the peace and prevent tribes from taking the warpath without his permission, he was interfering with the red man's cherished pastime of murder and pillage.
Had he not proved his valor on the warpath and under torture while they were only gaming with plumpits?
She wondered if now he was regretting that his eagerness for adventure had made his first warpath his last one.
So I went forth on the warpath against our foes in France and in the Netherlands.
I will not make peace until the Modoc heart says 'peace,' We will not go on the warpath again.
In former times they were often in the warpath against other Indian tribes; and among their ancient enemies are those who now occupy the country in common with them.
Within two days more, the tribe were on the warpath for revenge—and the war raged for a decade.
The war-frenzy of the Seri fighters is significant in its parallelism with the blood-craze of the chase, and even more so in its analogy with the warpath customs and ceremonies of most Amerind tribes and many other primitive peoples.
The warpath frenzy is one of the fundamental, even if little understood, facts of primitive life, and the character of the savage tribe can not properly be weighed without appreciation of it.
I suppose they wanted me to get out on the warpath so they could frame up some story about self-defense.
Twenty-two mad Apaches on the warpath against five cow-wrastlers!
He started him on the warpath at the age of fifteen, not then realizing that the days of Indian warfare were well-nigh at an end.
Afterwards, when I was a young man, we went on a warpath against the Gros Ventres.
