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To: lafroste
The Pawnee didn't have "squaws", they had wives,mothers, and grand mothers, and daughters.
78 posted on 01/18/2006 10:23:22 AM PST by fish hawk (creatio ex nihilo)
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To: fish hawk
Fur Shur, but the Iriquois couldn't speak of womenfolk and their kind without the use of the SUFFIX "-sqa".

Then there's the Abenaki, and their word for woman is "Squaw". Except for one small band the Abenaki have become totally assimilated. Because of objection on the part of other Indians, the federal government is currently refusing them "recognition".

In fact, the same tribes are the ones who started the rumor that the Abenaki word "Squaw" meant whore. This was part of a campaign to totally delegitimize the existince of the Abenaki.

In the extreme, though, tribes like the Pawnee viewed the women of any alien tribe to be whores and such which is why reject the use of this perfectly usable and necessary word (not that the Pawnee aren't also part of the vicious campaign against the Abenaki).

100 posted on 01/18/2006 5:02:37 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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