Posted on 11/29/2021 11:03:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A ski mountain is set to remove a derogatory term for Native American women from its name — two decades after state law eliminated the slur from names of communities and public landmarks.
The leader of a group of investors that’s buying Big Squaw Mountain Resort in Greenville vowed to retire the name upon completion of the purchase, the Portland Press Herald reported.
“It’s going to change. There is no doubt about that,” said Perry Williams, managing partner at Big Lake Development Co.
“It’s about time,” Penobscot National Tribe Ambassador Maulian Dana said of the prospective owners’ plans.
The mountain’s name was changed from Big Squaw Mountain to Big Moose Mountain after the state banned the word from public place names like towns, mountains and lakes in 2000. But the offensive word had carried on at the ski resort because it’s a privately owned business.
The word “squaw,” derived from the Algonquin language, may have once simply meant “woman,” but over generations, the word morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women, according to experts.
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She will ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS BIG SQUAW MOUNTAIN by REAL PEOPLE!
The new name will be Kamala Hoe Mountain.
Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Tahoe got its name cancelled this year, too.
“Whole Lot of Rosie Mountain Resort”?
I think the term “Women” should be banned due to it’s letters that spell, “Men”.
Experts? Who made them experts? I'm bettering they are of the self-appointed variety who are mostly looking for a payoff.
Disclosure: I am personal friends with a number of native Americans and I do not use that term. But I won't have some fake injun leftist telling me that I can't if I choose to do so.
Change it to “Full-Figured Squaw Mountain.”
West of me are the now renamed Negro and Polish mountains.
Yeah.
Like when they changed “Pine Knob” to the “DTE Energy Music Theater” or “Jack Murphy Stadium” to “Qualcomm”.
idiots
So “squaw” has become “moose”. Isn’t that demeaning to women to call them moose.
42-39-56.
I just watched an old Buster Keaton movie in which he ends up kissing the daughter of the chief. He calls her a “Squab”. Yes, SQUAB!
Moose everywhere, outraged at this latest slur directed at their size, are now organizing protests. Film at eleven....
What about Ski Apache?
How about “Full-Figured AWFL Mountain.”
Affluent White Female Liberal
Loretta Lynn had something to say: https://youtu.be/YIXBEChRXmo
Loretta Lynn had something to say: https://youtu.be/YIXBEChRXmo
The indigenous Americans whom I know (and I know many) understand that the meaning of “squaw” is a female adult of native American descent. Does not mean “whore”, or “bitch”, etc.
Squaw is not a pejorative word. Unless one has a low view of women (a/k/a females).
But now one more word has become trigger-talk.
Why is the word "squaw" derogatory? Is it an Indian word and was it intended to be derogatory?
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