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The English word squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, [1 ... as in "squaw man," meaning either "a man who does woman's work" or "a white man married to an Indian woman ...
There is a movement to remove the name "squaw" from geographic place names across the United States. [76] There is a minority counter-movement among a small number of academics to "reclaim" what they claim is the possible original meaning of the word, as an in-group term, which could still be offensive if used outside of that speech community.
From Old Montagnais aiachkimeou ([aːjast͡ʃimeːw]; modern ayassimēw), meaning "snowshoe-netter" (many times incorrectly claimed to be from an Ojibwe word meaning "eaters of raw [meat]"), and originally used to refer to the Mikmaq. [16] [17] Hickory (definition) From Powhatan <pocohiquara>, "milky drink made with hickory nuts". [18] [19 ...
The federal government has removed a word long used to slur Native American women from use on federal lands including 80 sites in California, U.S. Department of Interior officials announced Thursday.
The bill is among others Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on California Native American Day.
In a ceremony joined by Native American tribal leaders, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that will remove the word “squaw” from nearly 100 geographic features and place names across ...
Sequoyah (/ s ə ˈ k w ɔɪ ə / sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [a] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, [b] pronounced; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.
According to ethnographer John R. Swanton, the Waccamaw may have been one of the first mainland groups of Natives visited by the Spanish explorers in the 16th century.. Within the second decade of the 16th century, Francisco Gordillo and Pedro de Quexos captured and enslaved several Native Americans, and transported them to the island of Hispaniola where they had a