pemican
- a variation of pemmican.
Example Sentences
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This is not the case however with the Scotch, who have been provident enough to bring with them a supply of dried meat and pemican for a future day.
As in the case of the pemican, these Nascapies, Montagnais, and Cree Indians bring into the posts dried meats, marrow fat and tongues to barter, and on this the post dwellers live.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin
"So," sais I, "what in natur is pemican?"
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
On the 25th, having only a little pemican left, which we wished to keep, we sent forward a hunter in the little elk-skin canoe, to kill some game.
From Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Franchere, Gabriel
Many women came and made them presents of food, dried meat, pemican, and berries.
From Blackfeet Indian Stories by Grinnell, George Bird
