4 Words to use with tomahawks
Many people did not understand the laws on the subject, or hoped to evade them; and the hope was as strong in the breast of the hunter, who made a "tomahawk claim" by blazing a few trees, and sold it for a small sum to a new-comer, as in that of the well-to-do schemer, who bought an Indian title for a song, and then got what he could from all outsiders who came in to dwell on the land.
As between themselves the settlers had what they called "tomahawk rights," made by simply deadening a certain number of trees with a hatchet.
Snatching the bugle with the other hand, he managed to blow a warning note before a second tomahawk stroke stretched him dead.
They slew the men with their tomahawks end dragged their wretched wives and daughters away to captivity; and thus, in a short time, thirty of the English settlers had become the victims of their fury.