64 examples of indians' in sentences

She concluded that the Indians' acquaintance with soap and water must be extremely limited, and thought that the distribution amongst them of several boxes of COLGATE'S best would be a most delicate courtesy, and true missionary enterprise.

Just then the man who had charge of our cannibals, who each had a dog that they were looking for a place to roast, came along and I told him about the Indians' corn roast, and he ordered the cannibals to go drive the Indians away from their fire and roast their dogs.

So we went to the Indians' camp or wigwam.

But he was nothing to a white fellow, a lumberer, who was continually stuffing himself with the Indians' moose-meat, and was the butt of his companions accordingly.

He gave it to the world, at the time mentioned, under the title of "The Negroes' and Indians' Advocate."

In his Christian Directory, published about the same time as The Negroes' and Indians' Advocate, he gives advice to those masters in foreign plantations, who have negroes and other slaves.

So we broke camp, got the loads ready without waiting, put our sleeping-bags and blankets on our backs, and went rapidly down to the Indians' huts.

The Indians' Admirers and CriticsAt School and AfterIndian Courtship and MarriageExtraordinary DancesGambling by InstinctHow "Cross-Eye" Lost his PonyPawning a BabyAmusing and Degrading Scenes on Annuity Day.

The Indians' Admirers and CriticsAt School and AfterIndian Courtship and MarriageExtraordinary DancesGambling by InstinctHow "Cross-Eye" Lost his PonyPawning a BabyAmusing and Degrading Scenes on Annuity Day.

It would appear from the Indians' statements that most of the command were dismounted.

See Goodwyn, The Negroes and Indians' Advocate; Hart, History Told by Contemporaries, vol.

The upshot of this affair proved that the Indians' statement was correct, and a few presents was then thought sufficient to compensate the tribe for this most unwarrantable outrage.

SEE The Indians' book.

R57006, 11Jan50, Emily Grant Hutchings (A) THE INDIANS' BOOK, pictured and edited by Natalie Curtis [Burlin].

Unless we were willing that the whole continent west of the Alleghanies should remain an unpeopled waste, the hunting-ground of savages, war was inevitable; and even had we been willing, and had we refrained from encroaching on the Indians' lands, the war would have come nevertheless, for then the Indians themselves would have encroached on ours.

One Delaware chief still held out for neutrality, announcing that if he had to side with either set of combatants it would be with the "buckskins," or backwoodsmen, and not with the red-coats; but the bulk of the warriors sympathized with the Half King of the Wyandots when he said that the Long Knives had for years interfered with the Indians' hunting, and that now at last it was the Indians' turn to threaten revenge.

Of the whites, nine were killed and two or three wounded; the Indians' loss was two killed and five or six wounded.

They both greedily coveted the Indians' land, and were bent on driving the Indians off it.

In small parties, or singly, they threaded the forest scores of miles in advance or to one side of the marching army, and kept close watch on the Indians' movements.

The Indians' Stand at the Fallen Timbers.

It was consistent in William Penn, but it would not have been consistent in his contemporaries, who took the Indians' land for nought.

It had been our invariable practice hitherto, to encamp near the hills, and be on their summits by the dawn of day, to try to discover the morning smoke ascending from the Red Indians' camps; and to prevent the discovery of ourselves, we extinguished our own fire always some length of time before daylight.

" "The Red Indians' Lake discharges itself about three or four miles from its north-east end, and its waters form the River Exploits.

But now our foes with less advantage fight, Their strength decreases with our Indians' fright.

We kept on up the river till we began to hear the Indians' guns, and then we camped and did not fire a gun for two days, for we were afraid we might be discovered and robbed, and we knew we could not stay long after our grub was gone.

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