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siwash
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Siwash is a Chinook Jargon word for native peoples, derived from the French "sauvage", wild . It may refer to: Siwash College, a fictional school in the stories of George H. Fitch Siwash Creek or Nashwito Creek , two of five creeks in British Columbia Siwash ...
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In one conversation, Mary Dare learned more about the diminutive Siwash than Jesse had in twelve years of knowing him.
From them it crossed the ocean to the Siwash Indians who passed it on to the Dog Ribs and to the Flat Heads, and in this way it got to the American Colleges.
Did ye ever see one go wrong with a sensible name like Cassiar, Siwash, or Husky?
Russian fur-trader, married to him in the Greek Mission of Nulato, a thousand miles or so down the Yukon, thus being of much higher caste than the common Siwash, or native, wife.
Their Siwash socks were similarly conditioned, and when these had been thawed and removed, the dead-white tips of the toes, in the various stages of mortification, told their simple tale of the trail.
She passed a brush through her hair, pulled on her black leather boots and went into the kitchen to retrieve the old Siwash sweater.
They reached Circle City on the very day when some Siwash Indians came into the settlement with the report that there had been a rich gold strike farther up the river, on a certain Klondike Creek.
When it was a bit lighter he rose and walked out and cut a perimeter about their siwash camp looking for sign but other than their own faint track through the ash he saw nothing.
Swimming Wolf, the clumsy siwash, had no English words to ask you about it, so he took the simplest way to find out whether or not the white came off!
I shipped on a seal schooner with the lazy Siwashes, and followed his trackless trail to the north where the hunt was then warm.
Rat Island hut with two vermin-live Siwashes, sleeping three abed because their blankets were too few for division.
Hazel had seen the type in use among the coast Siwashes, twenty-five feet in length, narrow-beamed, the sides cut to a half inch in thickness, the bottom left heavier to withstand scraping over rock, and to keep it on an even keel.
Henderson refused to stand for this, said that he must give the preference over Siwashes to his old Sixty Mile friends, and, it is rumored, said some things about Siwashes that were not nice.