What is "cayuse"

Usage examples of "cayuse".

The Kicking Deers were Cayuse, a tribe he and the Pack knew little about.

They say that the Cayuse horses are so sturdy because the Kicking Deers bred with them.

He must 'a' struck a match an' seen where that Bar-20 cayuse was an' then took the first one nearest that wasn't it.

I've got to get to that li'l woman as quick as I can, an' I'd steal all the cayuses in the whole damned country if they'd do me any good.

Now, if we had good cayuses instead of these wooden wonders, we could run away from 'em dead easy, draw their best mounted warriors to the front an' then close with 'em.

Good thing their cayuses are well tired out, for as it is we've got to make a stand purty soon.

Among the, Nadowessies or Dahcotahs, the subdivision has been still greater, the same original tribe having given birth to the Konsas, the Mandans, the Tetons, the Yangtongs, Sassitongs, Ollah-Gallahs, the Siones, the Wallah Wallahs, the Cayuses, the Black-feet, and lastly the Winnebagoes.

They mustered about fifteen thousand warriors, from the Umbiquas, Callapoos, Cayuses, Nez-perces, Bonnaxes, Flat-heads, and some of the Crows, who had not yet gained prudence from their last "brushing.

Now would it not be good and wise to have all these brave grandchildren and grand-nephews as your neighbours and allies, instead of the Crows, the Cayuses, and the Umbiquas?

Five thousand he offered, and we were broke, but we remembered the poison grass of the Summit and the passage in the Rocks, and the man who was my brother spoke no word, but divided the cayuses into two bunches,--his in the one and mine in the other,--and he looked at me and we understood each other.

We'll dig up all the guns we can find, and catch up the orneriest cayuses in our strings, and have a real, old lynching bee--sabe?

They don't do no more than run around in a circle, and I've seen corralled Injun cayuses do that.

The family was away berry picking, and Jack twisted a rope into an Indian bridle and borrowed a cayuse from the log corral.

Cayuses and fillies and remudas and geldings and poontangs and chaps and spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle.

He wanted to do this calculation for coastal Indians like the Salish (who had easy access to seafood) and for inland ones like the Cayuse (who didn't) as part of an extremely convoluted plan to prove some sort of point about the relative standards of living of these tribes and how this affected their cultural development (coastal tribes made lots of fantastically detailed art and inland ones occasionally scratched stick figures on rocks).