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[DAVIESW739 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/10/2005 2:25:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
CKlooster at aol.com writes:

Please.  Such terms applied to Native American people are  extremely 
disrespectful.  It hurts me even to read the  words.  The term "Squaw" is itself 
derived from an obscenity.  These  are people that you are presumably speaking of; 
father, mother, and  child.  They had names...lineages...ancestors and 
(probably)  descendants.
 
Carla  



Sorry but you are either miss informed or just a PC person who  doesn't care 
about where a word came from just that its not your liking so we  should all 
not use it.
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"It is as certain as any historical fact can be that the word  squaw that the 
English settlers in Massachusetts used for 'Indian  woman' in the early 1600s 
was adopted by them from the word squa that  their Massachusett-speaking 
neighbors used in their own language to mean  'female, younger woman,'
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OK now jump all over me for putting the truth back in the English  language.
 
Walt  Davies
Cooper Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460 

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