Posted on 02/18/2022 7:31:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Two California lawmakers have proposed removing the word “squaw,” a slur against Native American women, from all geographic features and place names in the state.
Assembly Bill 2022, introduced by Assemblyman James Ramos, D-Highland, and Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. Ramos said the word is an idiom that came into use during the westward expansion of America, and is not a tribal word.
“AB 2022 would ban the use of the S-word and establish a process for renaming locations with that offensive racial and sexist term which began as derogatory word used against Native American,” Ramos said in a statement announcing the bill.
The U.S. Department of the Interior already has ordered the removal of the term from more than 700 sites on federal lands, and Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Oregon also have ordered the word struck from location names as well.
“Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage – not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
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Every summer we have squaw lines with lots of thunderstorms
What would these “Hispanic” people know of Indian culture. Maybe squaw is a word. FCOL...”the S-word”? No more of that crap. Ridicule these idiots back under their rock.
It means vagina.
Yet another lie from the woke crowd. See below form someone who ACTUALLY studies the native languages
In her article “Reclaiming the word ‘Squaw’ in the Name of the Ancestors,” Dr. Bruchac wrote the following excerpt about the meaning of squaw.
“The word has been interpreted by modern activists as a slanderous assault against Native American women. But traditional Algonkian speakers, in both Indian and English, still say words like ‘nidobaskwa’=a female friend, ‘manigebeskwa’=woman of the woods, or ‘Squaw Sachem’=female chief. When Abenaki people sing the Birth Song, they address ‘nuncksquassis’=‘little woman baby’.”
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-word-squaw-offensive-or-not
Oh come on, stop it. Really? Nothing better to do??
Escape from Commiefornia continues…
That would be “squall” lines, not “squaw line”
Them’s be squaw’ll lines. Y’all.
Have they polled the Tribal Nations?
I was wrong. It just means woman. But many people (like myself until two minutes ago) think it means something else.
Here’s the whole magillah.
You’re right. That turned out to be wrong info I posted.
I wonder if that bill contains money and manpower to “change the names.”
When I worked in a bank I was involved with a merger every three months. The name changing process can be daunting. Signage, documents, and all sorts of legal stuff is involved.
So yeah, “Let’s just change the name!” Is fine. But I don’t think people know what this really means.
Rather they concentrate on this then find another tax to implement. This doesn’t hurt anybody.
When did squaw become a slur?
I hate seeing our history erased.
Do the Native American tribes want this?
Sometimes California is used as a slur. They should change their name.
Can you imagine the number of places with “White” in their name? Gotta go. Resulting in Lacking in Pigment Lake, Lacking in Pigment Mountain, Lacking in Pigment Bear Lake,...
I consider washing clothes, doing the dishes, house cleaning as squaw work.
I guess I am now a racist.
People in Arizona could easily put up a Squaw line at their border with California with signs at every road.
When the Sacagawea dollar coin came out in 2000, I among others referred to it as a squaw-buck
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=squawbuck
This Leftist rag, not to be confused with the Babylon Bee, is based in the capital city of the craziest State in our union. The whole place belongs in a strait jacket.
My great grandmother was supposedly a squaw. Maybe I’m related to Princes Graybeaver from MA?
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