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Brule   /brul/   Listen
Brule

noun
1.
A member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux.





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"Brule" Quotes from Famous Books



... trod its pathless stretches without fear, and with their broad-axes they took toll of their ancient foe. For while in spring and summer they farmed their narrow fields, and rescued new lands from the brule; in winter they sought the forest, and back on their own farms or in "the shanties" they cut sawlogs, or made square timber, their only source of wealth. The shanty life of the early fifties of last ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... At Point Brule he overtook the fur-laden scows, and at Smith Landing an Indian runner reported the result of the fight, and the escape of MacNair. Lapierre smothered his rage, and with twenty men at the track-line of each scow, ...
— The Gun-Brand • James B. Hendryx
... put forth their opinions on what theme they may please; in the jeu parti one of the imagined disputants proposes two contrary solutions of some poetical or amorous question, and defends whichever solution his associate refuses to accept; the earliest jeu parti, attributed to Gace Brule and Count Geoffroi of Brittany, belongs to the second half of the twelfth century. The serventois were historical poems, and among them songs of the crusades, or moral, or religious, or satirical pieces, directed against woman and the worship of woman. To these various species ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... "Washtay" from the new chieftain and lord of the loyal Sioux. His highness Spotted Tail was pleased to say that he wouldn't mind swapping four of his ponies for Van, and made some further remarks which my limited knowledge of the Brule Dakota tongue did not enable me to appreciate as they deserved. The fact that the venerable chieftain had hinted that he might be induced to throw in a spare squaw "to boot" was therefore lost, and Van was saved. Early November found us, after an all-summer march of ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King


Words linked to "Brule" :   Teton Dakota, Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux


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