squawman

(See extract.) "Yet there is one still lower depth, the squaw-man the miserable wretch of European blood who marries a Crow or a Black foot in order to take up land in the Indian Reservation. The poor soul looks perpetually ashamed of his weakne ; his own friends avoid him; his wife's do not; on the contrary, they come and live upon him with great contentment. The squaw can easily divorce herself by Indian law, and when she does, the property, with all his improvements, remains hers. He hasn't even compensation for disturbance."- Pall Mall Gazette. IMG:content-0147.png:[blocks in formation]