For some time the friendly old Indians had told Joel Helvey that the young men were chanting the old song: "Some day we shall drive the whites back Across the great salt water Whence they came; Happy days for the Sioux When the whites go back.
The Indians never troubled anybody until the whites killed so many buffalo and wasted so much.
Big smoke had predicted to Red Snake the coming of the Great White Queen, who would empower the arms of the red man to overthrow the whites and would make him again master of his rightful lands.
This would be a means of reconnoitering and it would make the whites think the Indians were engaged in peaceful pursuits.
He was a young Indian who had spent some years among the whites in the Southwest, had made a pretense at getting an education, but had reverted violently to the life and faith of his fathers.
On his return from one of his inland excursions with Kudlago's son, whom the whitescalled captain, he saw his widow, apart from all the people, weeping for her great bereavement.
The ship-wrecked whites had nearly worn out their fur suits, and their supply had been greatly reduced by the losses on the floe.
The fact was, wherever the whites appeared they were connected with these ancient predictions of the spirit of the dawn returning to claim his own.
In many of the tales which the whites have preserved of Michabo he seems half a wizzard[TN-8], half a simpleton.
Recent quarrels with the whites had unusually irritated this unruly folk, and they resolved to make him their first victim.
Some few tribes in the far west still retain the custom, but most were soon ridiculed into its neglect, or were forced to omit it by the violation of tombs practised by depraved whites in hope of gain.
White eye~, military slang for a very strong and deleterious kind of whisky, so called because its potency is believed to turn the eyes round in the sockets, leaving the whites only visible.
The respectable whites do not permit them to associate with them or to be of their company when they have parties.
In this way, too, he got "hay and stubble" in his foundation, and gave the enemies of civil liberty among the whites a chance to pose as the friends of civil liberty among the blacks.
If oppressed, they may bring an action at law, but they will find none but whites amongst their judges; and, although they may legally serve as jurors, prejudice repulses them from that office.
They make most of the young men go with them to fight the whites in Tientsin.
By the evening of the eleventh all the whites in the city were gathered at the various Legations, but the streets were still crowded with people, and business went on as usual within this quarter.
We have always heard from you that the whites were good people, that they treated all natives well, and assuredly if you had heard of such doings as this you would not have remained with them.
Europeans were called so because the Chinese coasts were ravaged, sacked, and burnt by adventurers who first sailed into the Chinese seas, and the name has been applied to the whites ever since.
Everything about her was dark, except the whites of her eyes and the enamel of her teeth.
Then he licked his chops and Hooty the Owl snapped his bill, just as if they were tasting tender little Bob Whites that very minute.
The willful little Breeze saw them safely there, and when they were nicely hidden hurried back to the place where the Bob Whites had been sleeping.
Reddy Fox and Hooty the Owl looked so surprised and foolish when they found the Bob Whiteswere not there that the willful little Breeze nearly laughed out loud.
They were planning to steal down across the Green Meadows to the edge of the Brown Pasture where Mr. Bob White and pretty Mrs. Bob White and a dozen little Bob Whites had their home.
We are working for the good of both whites and blacks, and for the peace and prosperity of our common country.
Representatives of five distinct races, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Mountain Whites and Negroes wait for Christian instruction very largely upon the missionaries you are sending out.
Around them on all sides were the moral laxities of savage life, the dangerous powers of slavery, the looseness incident to any small population of whites in the midst of great numbers of ignorant and superstitious natives.
Such an issue would be equivalent to an issue of seven times that amount, or of twenty-eight hundred millions, to be borne by the whites who now recognize the Union.
A desperate hand-to-hand combat ensued between whites and redskins; the former fighting for the safety of their families, the latter in the hope of an immense booty.
The whitesare accustomed to treat the Indians thus.
Before you obtain that result, all the whites in the presidio will have been killed in its defence.
When the San Carlos Apaches, under Victoria, Ju, or Geronimo, were not out gunning for the whites, the whites were usually out gunning for one another over some trivial difference.
He had business with Clara, and merely waited till the reds and whitesof her comely face should have resumed their more normal relations before pursuing it.
Thus the fort and prisoners remained in the hands of the Indians, though, through the whole night, the prisoners and whites were in actual possession, and they were without the gates.
Take to every peck of flour five pound of butter, and the whites of six eggs, work it well together dry, then put cold water to it; this paste is good only for patty-pans and pasties.
Put into the whites the juyce of spinage to make them green.
His lips were parted over his teeth, the whites of his eyes glistened, he seemed gasping and speechless with fear.
For a moment the whites of Sophy's eyes were uplifted in speechless scorn.
You know what happened at the last election at Coolidgeville--how the whites wouldn't let the niggers go to the polls and the jolly row that was kicked up over it?
Miss Sally, catching Courtland's eye, showed the whitesof her own in a backward glance of mischievous significance to indicate the following Reeds.
The names of many of the whites engaged in this terrible affair have already been given to the proper legal authorities.
The original whites had disappeared, and no face was to be seen but that of a Metis in any of the cosy dwellings in the settlement.
These finding that other whiteshad taken Indian girls for brides, felt drawn towards the new settlement by sentiments stronger than those of mere interest.
These words at last prevailed, and the Crees put by their war paint, and came among the whites and offered them fish and buffalo steak.
Riel said, God was with their people, and that if the whitesever struck a blow, a thunderbolt would destroy them.
The whites were gradually crowding out the Indians and the Metis, and what was more natural and just than for them to take up arms in defence of their rights?
So it came to pass that in due season most of the pretty girls among the Jumping Indians had gone with triumph and great love in their hearts from the wigwam of their tribe to be the wives of the whites in their stately dwellings.
The whites are above marrying our daughters,' you first cry; now you plan revenge because they want to marry, and do marry them.
They collected the regular troops, militia, and such of the whites as were in their interest, together with the free negroes and mulattoes who had hitherto followed their cause.
On the other hand, the whites never failed to procure prompt and speedy justice against mulattoes.
She is quite neglected by the present government, to its disgrace, as she had often been the means of staying the bloody hand of her husband, when he was about to sign an order for the indiscriminate execution of the whites and mulattoes.
On the other hand, the most cruel wrongs have been perpetrated by whites upon perfectly peaceable and unoffending tribes like those of California, or the Nez Perces.
They were kindly received and amply provided for by the whites who then occupied it as a trading post.
In a few moments, the whites found themselves masters of the field, and also of the property.
Among many other facts, they learned from this party that Captain Gaunt, who was an old mountaineer well known to most of the whites present, had passed the winter on the Laramie River, and that he was then with his men in the New Park.
As soon as thewhites were discovered, the Indians went into council evidently to decide on the best mode of attacking and making away with them.
Besides waging war against the whitesand Mexicans, they have their differences to settle with their neighboring tribes, with whom they are punctilious in vindicating their national honor.
The battle songs and shouts which accompanied the dance reached the ears of the whites with fearful distinctness.
At this time, it was only by running great risk, that the whites could leave their towns and go to the neighboring mountains, for the purpose of obtaining even a little firewood.
During the winter, to beguile the time, the whites vied with their Indian allies in many of their sports.
The whitesdid not throw away a single shot; every ball struck a warrior in some vital spot.
The whites were on friendly terms with the inhabitants of this village, which determined Carson to seek out, from among their warriors, one active and intelligent brave, and get him to join in the chase.
The whites were now fully awakened to their danger, and about ready to commence the fight; but the enemy had scattered.
The village of the Indians was in due time found, when the whites commenced the fight by making an attack on it.
They informed thewhites that the small pox was making terrible havoc with the Blackfeet Indians.
In this instance, by the time the whiteshad got their firearms and men ready to commence the contest, the Indians had perpetrated their intended assault and were off.
Both sides had now, seemingly, had enough of fighting, and hostilities soon after entirely ceased, the savages marching back and leaving the whites masters of the field.
Vowing vengeance, and shaking their fists at the trappers, they rode off across the prairie, while the whites were now divided into two forces; one going up one bank, and the other taking the opposite side.
He was a great Apache chief, but a friend of the whites and their staunch supporter.
This desperate man taught the redskins how to fight like the whites and continually advised them in their councils of war, so that they often defeated the Blackfeet in their sanguinary encounters.
They were in the land of the Blackfeet Indians, who were as hostile towards the whites as were the Crows, and who were as arrant thieves; but they kept on towards the high land, hoping thus to elude the red men.
Finally the redskins made a stand upon the top of a round mountain, but as soon as the whites charged them they ran.
At first the two whites descended into the bed of a gorge to a point opposite the camp of the famous Big Foot Indian.
The whites are gradually encroaching upon their lands,—the lands which they believe that the Great Spirit has given to them,” replied Slover, in a deliberate tone.
This kind of diplomacy is that which usually wins with the American Indian, for the red man could never comprehend why the whites would offer peace if they felt at all certain that they could accomplish their purpose by means of war.
But the children of the plains realized that the whites were in force, and, fearing that they might attempt to punish them for their former actions, peacefully accepted several presents which were offered them.
It has been ten years since they have been on the war-path against the whites and I know that they will treat us well.
The two assassins had not long to wait, for a redskin soon came by on the gallop without show or sign of fear, because a flag of truce had been delivered to the whites but a short time before.
Eighty redskins were near this spot, and had camped near a waterhole, which the whites wished to get to, as they had been three days without water.
This was followed for several days by a band of Shawnees, who finally decided that the whites would be easy to capture and decided to ambush them.
Skim off the fat, and add to the jelly one pint of wine, half a pound of sugar, the whites of six eggs, and the juice of four large lemons; boil all these materials together eight or ten minutes.
The whites and yolks should be beaten thoroughly and separately.
To make icing for your wedding cake, beat the whites of eggs to an entire froth, and to each egg add five teaspoonfuls of sifted loaf sugar, gradually; beat it a great while.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
