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American Indian Movement support group and several other NA people
  * will * tell you that this word should not be used, several places on
websites and book writers have been ask to revise the use of the word
because it is a fact NA people frown on this word and it means as previously
suggested.
   I can bring lots of proof on this because I run over 30 NA groups.
I also took it to mean as Walt said until I was shown by some elders.
Dan M
Genealogy Community
surnames and NA connections
www.wvi.com/~wb
----- Original Message -----
From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] mega info


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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