feather-choctaw

Updated: May 19, 2025

An' my earlier experiences ain't thronged with 'em neither, though while I'm workin' cattle along the Red River I does carom on Injuns more or less. Thar's one old hostile I recalls speshul; he's a fool Injun called Black Feather-Choctaw, he is. This Black Feather's weakness is fire-water; he thinks more of it than some folks does of children.

Alfred Henry Lewis - How The Raven Died: 1902, From "Wolfville Nights"