Show squawk PROUD OF 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 squaw dance which he witnessed he says the darce was performed in a circle the dancers moving around with toma hawks in their hands at intervals they turned their faces all at once toward the middle of the circle and brandl she 1 their weapons after some time one of them would step into the ring and mal e 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 woman aid that her husband had trailed tra pled southeast to a country in habited by white people which jour ney tool him twenty days to perform he went to steal horses and when he came to 1 white peoples houses he found one where the men had gone out here hd killed two women and stole from them a number of horses |