I see the wigwamsof the redmen changed To ample houses, and the tiny plots Of maize and green tobacco broadened out To prosperous farms, that spread o'er hill and dale The many-coloured mantle of their crops.
There is rarely a collection of wigwams on the desert without a couple of tame skunks playing about.
I say more or less industrious people advisedly, for the reason that tramps are found not only among the ranches of the energetic sheep farmers, but also in the wigwams of the Indians.
The women and children fled from the wigwams by the way; and the fear of the annihilation of the whole tribe only abated when my wrath was, to their understanding, appeased by the interference of Mr. Lee.
Their wigwams were constructed of bushes inserted into the ground, twisted together at the top, and covered with the buffalo hides which they had been gathering for their winter lodges.
The wigwams were deserted, save by a few old women and squalid children, who were wallowing in dirt and grease, and regaling themselves upon the roasted intestines of the buffalo.
The village was a cluster of wigwams surrounded by a stockade, with two narrow openings for entrance.
A group of such wigwams made a village, which was often surrounded with a stockade of tree trunks put upright in the ground and touching one another.
While some of the English guarded them, the rest attacked the stockade, flung torches over it, and set the wigwams on fire.
It was a custom of the Otoes to vacate the wigwamsand live during the winter in tipis which were pitched in the timber where fuel was close at hand.
Then the women in the wigwams Hearing rumors of the fight, Bearing flaming, flickering torches Soon were wandering in the night.
The wigwams were of a type adopted by the Indians long before the discovery of America, and most of them were large enough to accommodate several families.
We thought we should find more wigwams here than houses, and you can't imagine how surprised we were when we found ourselves in a depot full of people.
Say, Jack, there's more houses than wigwams here, is there not?
They had not read much about that, and they had somehow got it into their heads that it was a little settlement, and that they should find more wigwams there than houses.
Before daylight the village was moved to the opposite side of the river, and the wigwams were pitched near the mouth of Parent's Creek, about a mile and a half above the fort.
The wigwams of over a thousand warriors dotted the low-lying land at the mouth of the river.
It consists of about sixty perfect wigwams of one room each, with no other light but what is admitted by the doorway, four feet high, with here and there a glimpse that makes its way through the wattles.
This patriarchal repast being finished, we again went forth, and visited the convent of Plijâ, distant from the wigwams about ten minutes' walk.
Do they deny that the cabins in this district are "aboriginal in build, and also indescribably filthy," and that "the condition of the inmates is not one whit higher than that obtaining in the wigwams of the native Americans?
An Indian appeared on the shore near the wigwams and beckoned to us to cross over.
On the slopes of the river bank might have been seen occasionally the bark wigwams of the Indian, and his birch canoe gliding silently under the shadow of the elms and willows lining the shore.
When a wicked Indian runs from the islands to the wigwams of my people, he is whipt and sent back.
If the country they have left is pleasant, cannot their God hear then from the wigwamsof their fathers?
Father, will we have to live inwigwams and dress in skins?
They can make their wigwams wind and waterproof with sewed cat-tail mats and birch bark, as shown in plate 46, fig.
Their bark wigwams are quite comfortable and probably more Ojibwe live in these native houses, shown in plate 46, fig.
The savages ran out of their wigwams and darted about in confusion until they saw the two motionless white men.
He took the forge, and tools, and all that was left in Crèvecoeur into the very heart of the Indian village and built a long lodge, shaped like the wigwams of the Illinois.
Though they had large wigwams of bark, they wore no clothing, and hung beads from their pierced noses and ears.
They had pitched their wigwams close to the landing-place, now Lewiston, which was some miles above the fort.
It has even been hinted that she came from the Western Indians, and was a damsel of the Shawnee race who had left the wigwams of her people.
The other wigwams built around it were in the same style, on a smaller scale, all brown with smoke.
The camp had moved on, nothing but the long poles of the wigwams were left standing.
But Otto Relstaub had viewed the interior of Indian wigwams before, and his interest was fixed upon the occupants, of whom there were three beside himself.
In spite of the exhortations of the Jesuits, they lay idle in their wigwams or hunted in the forest, dejectedly awaiting their doom.
The filth and smoke of the Indian wigwams tortured him, the disgusting food of the natives filled him with loathing, and their vice and indifference to his teaching weighed on his spirit.
But the rigours of the wigwamswere too much for him, and after three weeks he returned to Notre-Dame- des-Anges in an exhausted condition.
Moreover, they were closely watched: Onondaga warriors had pitched their wigwams about the palisades and several had stationed themselves immediately in front of the gate.
When the braves moved, it was the squaws who carried the wigwams and set them up in the new camp.
The wigwams look like haystacks, and the canoes like bathtubs.
We should have the interiors of the smoky wigwamswhich Spelman and Archer visited, the forms of the squaws dimly outlined against the grimy mat, as they pounded corn, or dropped the bread into the kettle to boil.
The deeds of Wingenund will be told in the wigwams of the Lenape," said the chief in a loud voice, and then sank back into the arms of his comrades.
These were the wigwams of the chief, and thither Isaac was conducted.
The few travellers there in those days were often surprised to find in the wigwams of the Indians men who acknowledged the blood of France, yet who had lost all semblance to the white man.
When Roger Clap arrived at Charlestown in 1630 he "found some Wigwams and one House .
The floors in these English wigwams undoubtedly would be covered with rushes or straw, following the custom in English cottages at that time.
There were more wigwams than he could count, filled with happy people.
In rain my eyes ranged over the wide extent of the prairie, in search of the wigwams of our Indian friends.
The wigwams of the tribe were pitched about a mile from the town, and I proposed a visit to their camp as an afternoon's amusement.
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