pappoose


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Noun1.Pappoose - an American Indian infantpappoose - an American Indian infant    
papoose
babe, baby, infant - a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"
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A loving Husband, Father and Pappoose. Family and friends please meet for a celebration of Al's life at West Road Crematorium on Thursday 31st May at 10:30am.
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PAPPOOSE - was as babyish as her name implies on her debut at Yarmouth on Tuesday but the filly definitely looks the one to follow from this six-furlong maiden, picking up in the closing stages to finish sixth.
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There is no strength in numbers this time: the burlesque comes in two acts, the melodrama in five; there are seven Indians and six Anglo-Saxons in the burlesque, as opposed to seven Indians and ten Anglo-Saxons in Stone's melodrama; Metamora's son becomes an audible voice in the burlesque, and his name--"Pappoose, the last of the last of the Pollywogs"--challenges the very notion of the last Indian syndrome in his survival at the end of the play and his anticipation of future Indian resistance.
"The last Indian" syndrome revisited: Metamora, take two

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