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...What is the term for a male or female baby of an Indian squaw...
...Jack London, the glaring orbs of crouching timber wolves, the "heap big Injun" chiefs whittling with wicked knives before gewgawed teepees in full war regalia, a daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...
...Sitting Bull," the tanned, "blue-eyed pathfinder continued when he of the scribbling race had withdrawn him to the more purified region of a tiny lake. "He was a big disappointment. After the battle of Big Horn, which he merely directed from the sidelines, he and his squad of squaw men fled over the border into the greed Canadian territory. Customer's men couldn't follow them, and although we didn't hanker for their presence we had to put up with it. I talked with Sitting Bull in conferences an found him to be a low and wily chief...
Pipe In Stewart Landing, B. C., one Teeta-Wakee, 107-year old squaw, was accosted by a peddler. Rolling her rheumy eyes in coy alarm, she listened while the man attempted to persuade her that she needed a new pipe. When he fell silent she produced from her bosom a wooden object, notched, smoke-blackened, evil, stuffed it with tobacco, applied a match, puffed miasma into the peddler's face. She had smoked this pipe, she declared, for 65 years...
Sued for divorce. Lydig Hoyt, of Manhattan, by Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt; in Paris. She appeared with William Faversham in The Squaw Man, has played with the Stuart Walker Stock Company and with Billie Burke, was named by Neysa McMein, famed illustrator, as one of the twelve most beautiful women in the United States. Earlier reports had stated that Mr. Hoyt too would...