What is "catawbas"

Usage examples of "catawbas".

We carried our burdens and we hunted for game, and somehow we lived, and somehow at last we came to the land of the Catawbas, after fording another great river.

We walked inland then, going toward the place where the Catawbas had left their canoe, and only once did we look back.

The Catawbas drew their canoe up on the shore near the small pier, disdaining to even glance at the Indians who stood about.

Among themselves the Catawbas muttered, and I knew from a word I caught it was of their brother they spoke.

It reassured me that the Catawbas were out and around, for they were good men and great warriors.

Our Catawbas had scattered into the woods, and I knew there would be no stragglers reaching the coast, not even to report what had happened.

If so, I did not envy them, for the Catawbas were great hunters, and we had long been their friends.

This pale, helpless creature, who could not chip an arrowhead or build a proper fire or even take five steps off a trail without getting lost—he cut those Catawbas down like rotten cornstalks!

Bigkiller said if he could get that many people to join a war party, he could take care of the Catawbas for good.

Supposedly these folks mingled with the Powhatans, the Catawbas, the Cherokees, and a number of other tribes.

It was as much his fault as it was Brother Jim Bob's that her breasts someday would no longer be a glorious tribute to God's handiwork (comparable to round ripe melons such as your catawbas and honeydews).

For altho he writes particularly of the Southern Indians only, the Catawbas, Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Choctaws, with whom alone he was personally acquainted, yet he generalises whatever he found among them, and brings himself to believe that the hundred languages of America, differing fundamentally every one from every other, as much as Greek from Gothic, have yet all one common prototype.