Show SQUAWS PHOUD OF HUSBANDS give dance to boast of committed by braves john bradbury who traveled in the region lying west of the mississippi river early in the last century has an interesting description of a equaw dance which he witnessed he says the dance was performed in a circle the dancers moving around with toma hawks in their hands at intervals they turned their faces all at once I 1 toward the middle ot the circle and brandished their weapons after some time one of them would step into the ring and make an harangue frequent ly brandishing her weapon I 1 found that the nature of all the speeches was the same which was to boast of the actions of their husbands one I 1 woman said that her husband had trai aled southeast to a country in habited by white people which jour ney took him twenty days to perform he went to steal horses and when he came to the white peoples houses he found one where the men had gone out here he killed two women and stole from them a number of horses |