Women are not 'squaws'. Native american men do not 'have squaws'. A woman of any color or creed is not 'your squaw'.
And Native americans do not speak using the broken idiotic language ("Like bear in tall tree") you are trotting out in some of your posts. Speak that way to a native on a reservation and you are likely to be completely ignored, like you were not even there. Use 'Squaw' to refer to a native woman to her face, and I don't know how bad things would get.
"Injun", honest or not, is a slur as well. This whole stupid charicature is borne of ignorance and is offensive. Take a trip to a reservation someday. See what our forefathers reduced their once inter-continental high culture to. Then try lauging at your cartoonish notions of 'Indians'. 95% of a people dead within a few generations of first contact. The rest herded into the worst and most useless land we could find. Then made jokes for saturday morning cartoons.
We may not be morally responsible for the sins of our forefathers, but we are responsible for not continuing their mistake.
Yeti
Flame » in reply to Could you please tell me your problem with the word squaw?
Its a made-up 'nonsense' word (by non-native settlers) that is a derogatory racial slur used to dispairage native women
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