Squaw (other)
Squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Squaw may also refer to: Places * Squaw Township, Warren County, Iowa, USA * Squaw Creek (other) * Squaw Island (other) * Squaw Lake (other) * Squaw Peak (other) * Squaw Point, a point of land on Gull Lake in Minnesota, U.S. * Squaw Rock, another name for Frog Woman Rock, a volcanic monolith in Mendocino County, California * Squaw Valley (other) Plants * Squaw grass, ''Xerophyllum tenax'' * Squaw root, ''Conopholis americana'' * Squaw weed, ''Senecio aureus'' * Squaw tea, the herb ''Ephedra nevadensis'' or an herbal tea containing ephedra Other uses * Squaw Sachem of Mistick Squaw Sachem of Mistick (c. 1590-1650 or 1667) was a prominent leader of a Massachusett tribe who deeded large tracts of land in eastern Massachusetts to early colonial settlers. Squaw Sachem was the widow of Nanepashemet, the Sachem of the Pawtuc ... (c. 1590- ...
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Squaw
The English word ''squaw'' is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by non-Natives, is considered derogatory, misogynist, and racist.King, C. Richard,De/Scribing Squ*w: Indigenous Women and Imperial Idioms in the United States in the ''American Indian Culture and Research Journal'', v27 n2 p1-16 2003. Accessed Oct. 9, 2015 While the morpheme ''squaw'' (or a close variant) is found within longer words in several Eastern and Central Algonquian languages, primarily spoken in the northeastern United States and in eastern and central Canada, these languages only make up a small minority of the Indigenous languages of North America. The word "squaw" is not used among Native American, First Nations, Inuit, or Métis peoples. Even in Algonquian, the related morphemes used are not the English-language slur, but only a component part of longer Algonquian words that contain more than one morpheme. Curr ...
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