Washitaw

plural Washitaws

1. alternativeAlternative form of Ouachita.

   […] the Washitaws with their lovely squaws are on their way to visit the Delawares, who have a reservation not far north of Lawrence. This sort of visiting they call "smoking ponies."

   1953, The Kansas Magazine, page 89

2. A member of the Washitaw Nation, an African-American group associated with the Moorish Science Temple of America and claiming to be a sovereign state of Native Americans within the United States.

1. alternativeAlternative form of Ouachita.

   And out yonder beyont ^([sic]) the Washitaw is a little thin line that sometimes breaks into balloon swells.

   1881, Charlotte Moore Clark, Baby Rue, page 172