Posted on 01/11/2005 5:51:00 PM PST by blam
GGG Ping.
Oh please, she was no guide. She was their hooker. They made up the guide story to impress their wives...
I think her name was Sacajawea---and please----let's keep it clean---you know how many Girl Scout Camps are named for her?????
A hunter walks into an Indian encampment. He seeks out the Chief to pay his respects. In the course of their conversation he notices three Indian women sitting on hides. Two are buffalo hides but he can't make out what kind of hide the third is sitting on. He asks the Chief and the Chief informs him it's a hippopotamus hide, a gift. The hunter asks why two of the women are on buffalo hides and the third is on the hippo hide.
The Chief informs him that the woman on the hippopotamus hide is his number one wife and is equal in worth to the two others put together. The hunter expresses surprise and th chief responds
Are you ready for it:
"Haven't you heard? The squaw on the hide of the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides"
Clearly her being used to live off the land was of help, and her water skills as in the boat incident was also helpful. Note however that Indians of whatever stripe had lived in the country for a thousand years or more, but it took 2 Americans to map the area in a way that could be communicated to others.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to hunt you down and beat you up for that one, and I don't think any jury in the land would have a problem with that. ROFL.
THAT'S the response I was looking for! No good pun is complete without the groans of the victims.
BTTT
I'm pretty sure that it was Sacajawea, too.
This article was proably ghost written by the mythbuster wing of the ACLU. The libs love to bust the American myths that define us.
On the other hand, if you read the journals you discover that the men in the party did mention "dancing" several times with the ladies in various tribes. They weren't hiding anything from their wives.
You really do need to educate yourself in these matters before you talk trash, eh?!
Both spellings are acceptable. The pronunciations aren't that different...and the spelling of all Indian names was phonetic, as interpreted by different ears.
I should have been ready but wasn't. Good giggle!
They are rarely mentioned at visitors centers anymore. Clearly Sacajawea(The courageous Indian WIfe) and York (Clark's oppressed black slave)were responsible for the trek across the continent. Lewis and Clark were just along for the ride.
Never been to a Girl Scout Camp. Never been to a Boy Scout Camp. Just camped with men who drank alot, played loud music, and snored loudly in tents 'till sunrise. Where getting up early is dependent upon a small bladder or overactive kidneys.
Yet the smell of over-cooked eggs on a grill being directed by an Indian woman whose contractions were coming at, say, two minute intervals might be just as effective an alarm.
>John C. Luttig wrote that Charbonneau's wife, a Shoshone >woman, "died of a putrid fever." He went on to write "she was >a good and the best woman in the fort, aged abt 25 years."
I do wonder if it was the other wife of Charbonneau. I guess we will never know.
btt
Just a couple dead white guys.
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