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They are called the Pillagers, a fierce and warlike race, proud of their independence, and, next to the Blackfeet and the Camanches, the most ferocious and formidable tribe within the territory of the United States.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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He becomes a great friend of the elder Nanapush, and his life intertwines with those of the Kashpaws, Lamartines, Lazarres, Morrisseys, Pillagers -- characters who inhabit all of Erdrich's novels with Faulknerian deftness.
The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich: Questions 2001
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Pillagers stole supplies from a UN World Food Programme (WFP) depot as the train carrying 120 tonnes of food for Rwandan refugees was attacked further north, the WFP announced in the Kenyan capital
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It was claimed by the Pillagers that "Hole-in-the-day" seized the occasion to profit personally in his negotiations with the agents of the
Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance
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His marriage with a white woman increased the hatred of the Pillagers, and they shot him from ambush and killed him near _Ninge-tá-we-de-guá-yonk_ -- Crow Wing -- on the 27th day of June, 1868.
Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance
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The Pillagers and some other bands urged him strongly to this course, and his supremacy as head-chief was threatened unless he complied.
Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance
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The Pillagers and some other bands urged him strongly to this course, and his supremacy as head-chief was threatened unless he complied.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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It was claimed by the Pillagers that "Hole-in-the-day" seized the occasion to profit personally in his negotiations with the agents of the Government.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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His marriage with a white woman increased the hatred of the Pillagers, and they shot him from ambush and killed him near _Ninge-tá-we-de-guá-yonk_ -- Crow Wing -- on the 27th day of
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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Pillagers expressed in council by the general body of Leech Lake
The Indian Question (1874) Francis Amasa Walker 1868
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