Definition of Squawman

1. a white man with an Indian wife [n SQUAWMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squawman

squawker
squawkers
squawkier
squawkiest
squawkily
squawkiness
squawking
squawkingly
squawks
squawky
squawl
squawled
squawlike
squawling
squawls
squawman (current term)
squawmen
squawroot
squawroots
squaws
squawweed
squawweeds
squbit
squbits
squeak
squeak by
squeak out
squeak through
squeaked
squeaker

Literary usage of Squawman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges by James Willard Schultz (1907)
"Without the squawman, I do not know what the Blackfeet would have done in the making of their treaties with the Government; in getting rid of agents, ..."

2. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"A marked illustration of this now before the public is Edward Milton Royle's "squawman," recently at Wallack's Theatre. The dramatist has caught his picture ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"He was naturally a bit "tough," being originally from the backwoods of Maine, and now what is known as a " squawman," the father of half-a-dozen half-breed ..."

4. My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges by James Willard Schultz (1907)
"... joins in their religious ceremonies; and as a squawman lives the Indian life. BERRY—A mixed-blood Indian trader, born on the upper Missouri River; ..."

5. Estudios entomológicos y parasitológicos by John Edwin Bakeless, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, David R. Iriarte, Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"The Canadian traders had been working on the shifty squawman, even inviting him to return to Canada with them, the result being that he suddenly demanded ..."

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