by Isabella Dumon
Carouse – Drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.
Maxim – A short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.
Sciatica – Pain affecting the back, hip, and outer side of the leg, caused by compression of a spinal nerve root in the lower back, often owing to degeneration of an intervertebral disk.
Purview – The scope of the influence or concerns of something.
Geld -To castrate
Potency – Power or influence
Blasphemous – Sacrilegious against God or sacred things; profane.
Pernicious – Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Squaw – An offensive word for an American Indian woman or wife.
Strumpet – A female prostitute or a promiscuous woman.
Comportment – Behaviour, bearing
Clemency – Mercy, lenience
Huckleberry – A small, round, edible blue-black berry related to the blueberry.
Perdition – A state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death.
Sanction – A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
Writ – A form of written command in the name of a court or other legal authority to act, or abstain from acting, in some way.
American Indian Glossary
Ati<a: Pawnee word for “mother.”
ta ta Jiks sta: Pawnee for “I love you.”
Tatanka: Lakota word for “buffalo.”
Pakwachinenothwa: Sac n Fox word for “buffalo.”
Kit Tuk Creek: Original name for Genoa in Pawnee. Means “beaver.”
Dat do ta dee: Pawnee for “I am waiting on you.”
Eh dus ca: Pawnee for “warrior society.”
Works Cited
“Huckleberry Vaccinium spp.” Photograph. Huckleberry (Vaccinium spp.) Native. Tryon Life Community Farm, n.d. Web. 16 April 2015.
New Oxford American Dictionary. Ed. Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg. Oxford University Press. 3rd Edition. 2011.
Reinholz, Randy. Off the Rails. n.p., Feb. 2015. Web. 16 April 2015.
Robinson, Jim. “Bison (American Buffalo) – 002.” Photograph. Bison (American Buffalo) An Animal Exploitation Photo Journal and Gallery Presentation from All-Creatures.org. The Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman Family Foundation, n.d. Web. 16 April 2015.
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