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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 1218505" data-attributes="member: 7966"><p>For the actual derivation and origin of the word squaw, please read here:</p><p><a href="http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/squaw_1.pdf" target="_blank">http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/squaw_1.pdf</a></p><p><a href="http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/squaw_1.pdf" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/squaw_1.pdf" target="_blank"></a>Excerpt from article:</p><p><em>I have always tried to emphasize that squaw is now generally considered disparaging, as current dictionaries rightly indicate. Everyone would regard its use to refer to a Native American woman as demeaning (or colossally ignorant), though it should be noted that terms like squaw bread and squaw dance are still pretty widely used in Indian Country.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In its historical origin, the word squaw is perfectly innocent, as current dictionaries also correctly indicate: squaw comes from a language of the Algonquian family in which it meant "woman.'' </em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>Many languages of the Algonquian family have related words for "woman'' that can be reconstructed back to the Proto-Algonquian parent language as *ethkweewa by using the techniques of comparative linguistics ...</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em><em>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,'' and not from Mohawk ojiskwa' "vagina,'' which has the wrong shape, the wrong meaning, and was used by people with whom they then had no contact. The resemblance that might be perceived between squaw and the last syllable of the Mohawk word is coincidental.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em><strong>Added below</strong></p><p></p><p>Oprah sensationalized and spread the false derivation from the Mohawk language starting in 1992 and the Mohawk derivation first appears in literature in 1892.</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 1218505, member: 7966"] For the actual derivation and origin of the word squaw, please read here: [URL="http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/squaw_1.pdf"]http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/squaw_1.pdf [/URL]Excerpt from article: [I]I have always tried to emphasize that squaw is now generally considered disparaging, as current dictionaries rightly indicate. Everyone would regard its use to refer to a Native American woman as demeaning (or colossally ignorant), though it should be noted that terms like squaw bread and squaw dance are still pretty widely used in Indian Country.[/I] [I] In its historical origin, the word squaw is perfectly innocent, as current dictionaries also correctly indicate: squaw comes from a language of the Algonquian family in which it meant "woman.'' [/I] [I]Many languages of the Algonquian family have related words for "woman'' that can be reconstructed back to the Proto-Algonquian parent language as *ethkweewa by using the techniques of comparative linguistics ... [/I][I]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,'' and not from Mohawk ojiskwa' "vagina,'' which has the wrong shape, the wrong meaning, and was used by people with whom they then had no contact. The resemblance that might be perceived between squaw and the last syllable of the Mohawk word is coincidental. [/I][B]Added below[/B] Oprah sensationalized and spread the false derivation from the Mohawk language starting in 1992 and the Mohawk derivation first appears in literature in 1892. [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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