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That depends whether you are interested in historical accuracy, if you are genuinely interested in native languages and cultures - or if you prefer to promote the "ignorant white American" tradition of calling any native American female a squaw.
"Squaw" is a word used in American English that derives from the Natick (Wampanoag/Narragansett/Massachusett) words squaas, squas and squaus meaning a female. Even the neighbouring Algonquian-speaking tribes had their own different word for this:
- Delaware ochqueu or xkwe,
- Powhatan crenepo or cucheneppo or -squa
- Menominee ikwe,
- Ojibwe anishinaabekwe,
- Shawnee ichque,
- Abenaki phanem,
- Maliseet -sqehs
- Mohegan sqá
- Naskapi iskwaaw
Other linguistic groups had their own words for a female or a woman:
- Kiowa mahyehn
- Comanche nai'bi
- Onondaga hehron goniagui
- Oneida laothuwisʌ́tslaˀ
- Cayuga agǫgweh
- Seneca yakökwe
- Mohawk yakon:kwe
- Maya (Yucatec) ko'olel or xch'uup
- Flathead (Kalispel) smeem
- Lakota win
- Crow bia
- Hidatsa mia or wia
- Arikara sápat
- Mandan wiinh
- Shoshone wa'ipi
- Paiute mogo'ne
- Zuni mak'i
- Aztec (Nahuatl) cihuatl
- Yaqui jamut
- Hopi wùuti
- Cahuilla nícill
- Inca (Quechua) warmi or huarmi
- Xavante pi'õ
The idea that all native American women are "squaws" is clearly totally wrong and the use of that word should be avoided - it is simply insulting, ignorant and simplistic.
^ We actually prefer to be called "Indigenous" because any natural born human inhabiting either North or South America is a "Native American". Interesting side note, people from other areas of the world invade "Native American" chat rooms and post some pretty offensive and anti-American Propaganda. They are mistaken because they took the literal translation of "Native American" and assume that a "Native American" chat room is full of average Americans. Little do they they're talking to a bunch of savages !!!
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