Sagamite

"I will myself travel into thy country," said he, "and eat sagamite in thy grandmother's skull." ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

Striking his hatchet through a kettle of sagamite to signify thus would he break peace to all Radisson's foes, the old Iroquois warrior made a speech to the assembled guests. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Radisson's Iroquois father held great feasts in which he heaved up the hatchet to break the kettle of sagamite against all enemies. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The warriors spoke no more soft words, but spent their time feasting, chanting war-songs, heaving up the war-hatchet against the kettle of sagamite -- which meant the rupture of peace. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The passport was respected and the elders of the village, which was close at hand, invited the voyagers ashore and feasted them with sagamite and fish. ❋ Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1900)

The man nearest him had suddenly fallen with a crash, lying quite still with his face in a platter of the sagamite which had been brought out by the women. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

There were little booths here and there where squaws were cooking sagamite and selling it in queer dishes made of gourds. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

The sagamite he had learned to tolerate, but the maize cakes were so excellent it seemed as if he could never get enough of them. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

One of the Indians spoke a little Illinois, and served as interpreter; a friendly conference was followed by a feast of sagamite and fish; and the travellers, not without sore misgivings, spent the night in the lodges of their entertainers. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

During the speeches on either side, food was brought in without ceasing; sometimes a platter of sagamite or mush; sometimes of corn boiled whole; sometimes a roasted dog. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

A squaw spread a mat for him by the fire, roasted four ears of Indian corn before the coals, baked two squashes in the embers, ladled from her kettle a dish of sagamite, and offered them to her famished guest. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

At noon, visitors were never wanting, to share the Fathers 'sagamite; but at the stroke of four, all rose and departed, leaving the missionaries for a time in peace. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

-- Try to eat their sagamite as they cook it, bad and dirty as it is. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

Their food consisted of sagamite, or "mush," made of pounded Indian-corn, boiled with scraps of smoked fish. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

So, also, among the Iroquois the bride and bridegroom used to partake together of a cake of sagamite, which the bride always offered to her husband. " ❋ Ignatius Donnelly (1866)