"squatawa'd"

[Joel S. Berson]

Two Google Book hits tell me that Tena-Squatawa was a great Shawnee
chief and prophet, and twin brother of Tecumseh.

Does this tell anyone what George's "squatawa'd" means?  Not me.  But
perhaps the two books' discussions of the Shawnees and their leaders
might.  (Wikipedia does not actually place the Shawnee historically
in Harris's Tennessee, but it has them in Kentucky.)

Google Everything tells me their is a (TV?) producer Tim
Squatawa.  Perhaps he knows.

Joel

At 2/6/2012 09:51 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>      The Forcible Argument. -- "Gentlemen of the jury," said a hoosier
>lawyer, addressing a real shell-bark jury, "I say that ere magnanimous sun
>shines in the heavens, though you can't see it, kase it's behind a cloud;
>but you know it, though I can't prove it; so my client, who rises airly and
>hunts coons like an honest man, has a good case, though he can't
>prove it.  Now
>if you believe what I tell you a bout the sun, you are bound on your bible
>oaths to believe what I tell you about my client's case, and if you don't
>then you call me a liar, and that I'll be squatawa'd if I'll stand it
>anyhow; so if you don't want to swear false and have no trouble, you'd
>better give us our case."
>
>      New-York Daily Express, August 11, 1837, p. 2, col. 5
>
>
>"Shell-bark" seems not to be in the OED; I think it is in DARE.
>"Hoosier" is in the OED from 1826, but note the typo in the quotation:
>1826    in *Chicago
>Tribune<http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:32445/view/Entry/88346?rskey=rFElqc&result=1&isAdvanced=true>
>* (1949) 2 June 20/3   The Indiana hoosiers that came out last fall is
>settled from 2 to 4 milds of us.
>"squatawa'd" --- ???

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