I saw his tomahawk in the air, and I remember wondering who would best command when I was dead.

They had tomahawks at their belts and long shining knives with deerhorn handles.

"My sons have fallen by the tomahawk of their enemies; my daughter sleeps under the foaming waters of the Falls.

We found footmarks of Indians, which we traced; by these it appeared that they were in small force, and that when H fell from his horse he recovered his feet, and ran from the enemy, in the direction of the plain, for about two hundred yardshere it was evident he had been overtaken, and his skull cloven with a tomahawk from behind.

But I never dared to instil such insubordinate notions into the heads of my Sioux female friends, lest some ultra "brave," in a desperate rage, might substitute the tomahawk for the log.

Half of the captives were tomahawked on the spot.

the days are past when I could lead forth my warriors to the battle, and wield my tomahawk with the best and the bravest.

Advancing, with a firm step, to the general, he put his own bright and keen tomahawk into the other's hands, folded his arms on his bosom, bowed his head a little, and said, firmly "StrikeNick kill cap'inMajor kill Nick.

The girls were unharmed, for the Indians rarely molested their captives on the journey to the home towns, unless their strength gave out, when they were tomahawked without mercy.

" "How do you know she can't be got agin, whin" "She was tomahawked afore my eyesain't that enough?" demanded the trapper, indignantly.

He was among the foremost to lead the Dahcotahs against the Chippeways; and though he longed to raise his tomahawk against his foes, his spirit sunk within him when he remembered the girl he loved.

Andrew could not break loose, but watching his chance, as the small Indian came up, he kicked him so violently in the chest that he knocked the tomahawk out of his hand and sent him staggering into the water.

The trader at Leech lake warned Mr. B. to beware of him, and said that he once, when he (the trader) refused to give up to him his stock of wild rice, went and got his gun and tomahawk, and shook the tomahawk over his head, saying "Now, give me your wild rice."

Forward he sprang, whirling his heavy tomahawk round his head, as if it had been a child's toy, and preparing to bring it down on the white man's skull with a force that must have cloven it in two.

She read anecdotes of men, remarkable for their success and piety, and an account of Indian fighting, interrupted, as a red man lifted his tomahawk to slay, by the rattle of an arrow on the buttery door.

The man paused a moment before the young prisoner, whirled his tomahawk about his head and uttered a ferocious shout.