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Brulés

  • plural
    of Brulé.
    brulé
    noun
    (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
brulés
  • plural
    of brulé.
    brulé
    noun
    (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.

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As Bob Scott had predicted, the Brulés had burned the ranch and craftily scattered the moment they reached the sand-hills.

From The Mountain Divide by Armand Both

When the Brulés attacked the Ponkas, in 1872, they stood on the bluff and threw up dust.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

There is a legend which says that at one time the bands of the Ogallallas and Brulés lived upon this river, immediately opposite the precipice.

From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Henry Inman

They would lay the matter before the council fire of Sintogaliska,—he who had ruled the Brulés since first the white tents of the soldiers gleamed along the Platte—Sintogaliska who never lied.

From Under Fire by C. B. Cox

There were Brulés there, young braves who longed for battle then and there, and who leaped to their gaunt ponies and shouted challenge and defiance, but Two Lance interposed.

From Under Fire by C. B. Cox

There are no better horsemen in the world than the Red River "brulés;" and so long as the horse keeps on his legs, the rider sticks to him.

From Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. by John M'lean

To hunt the buffalo freely, even on foreign soil, seemed to the bois brulés to be their natural right.

From Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 by Marcus L. Hansen

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