Re: [h-cost] one of a kind wedding dress

[penny1a]

I know from attending a Chickahominy Powwow last year they stated that it is
not a favorable word.

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[h-cost] OT RE: one of a kind wedding dress

[otsisto]

It means woman in the Wappanoag language, specifically it alludes to a
matron or woman that was married and had children.
It really depends in the context it which it is used which makes it
derogatory or not. Hollywood movies didn't help.

-Original Message-
I was surprised by this because I had never heard it used in such a way. I
had
always heard it used to mean woman or wife. Granted, it is a condescending
racist term but certainly not an obscene or sexual one. So I looked at wiki
to
see what it said. It does mention the vagina issue but said it didn't arise
until the 1970s where there are earlier usages of the word which seemed to
mean
woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw

Teena


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Re: [h-cost] one of a kind wedding dress

[Beteena Paradise]

I was surprised by this because I had never heard it used in such a way. I had 
always heard it used to mean woman or wife. Granted, it is a condescending 
racist term but certainly not an obscene or sexual one. So I looked at wiki to 
see what it said. It does mention the vagina issue but said it didn't arise 
until the 1970s where there are earlier usages of the word which seemed to mean 
woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw

Teena





From: otsisto 
To: Historical Costume 
Sent: Sat, June 18, 2011 8:25:27 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] one of a kind wedding dress

Sadly, this is an Algonquin (specifically Wappanoag) word that means matron,
that a young Iroquoian woman decided was an English bastardization of an
Iroquois word that mean vagina.


-Original Message-
  squaw


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Re: [h-cost] one of a kind wedding dress

[otsisto]

Sadly, this is an Algonquin (specifically Wappanoag) word that means matron,
that a young Iroquoian woman decided was an English bastardization of an
Iroquois word that mean vagina.


-Original Message-
  squaw


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Re: [h-cost] Azalea Trail Maids: Antebellum Costumes

[otsisto]

That's alright. It helps me not feel so much like a dunce when I do it. :)

-Original Message-
I am sorry De for repeating your links.

Penny Ladnier, owner



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