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SQUAW

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 747 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SQUAW  , the anglicized word for woman among the

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North
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American
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Indians; the
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Massachusetts
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Indian
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form is squa or schqua, the Narraganset squdwo, the
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Cree eskwuo,
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Delaware ochqueu, khqueu, &c . It is also used in
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composition with names of animals to denote the
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female .

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