Apart from the linguistic debate, the word "
squaw" has become offensive to many modern Native Americans because of usage that demeans Native women, ranging from condescending images (e.g., picture postcards depicting "Indian squaw and papoose") to racialized epithets (Green 1975). It is similar in tone to the words "
Negress" and "
Jewess," (Adams 2000) which treat ethnic women as if they were second-class citizens or exotic objects.
w*kipedia.org/wiki/
Squaw"Were you to read
Winslow's description of his visit to the
Indian chief, you would be greatly amused. Massasoit had no provisions in his wigwam, so he and his guests went to bed hungry. Besides, Winslow and his men had to sleep side by side with the
dirty chief and his squaw, and they were so crowded by other Indians that they were very uncomfortable indeed."
Notice the language in this paragraph. "
Dirty chief and his squaw". This article is also a highly inaccurate historical depiction of what happened during the first thanksgiving.
www.her*tage-history.com/www/heritage-books.php?Dir=books&author=guerber&book=thirteen&story=thanksgiving
