Subject: Re: Names
Date: Mar 18 10:02:05 1997
From: Mark Albright - marka at atmos.washington.edu
Webster's dictionary defines "squaw" as "a North American Indian woman, esp.
a wife". This doesn't sound very offensive to me. Perhaps someone may have
used the word in a context which was offensive, but that doesn't make the
word inherently offensive.
> When people use the term without meaning to be derogatory I can't help but
> label them as offensively ignorant.
Mark Albright
Seattle