The S-word
The word "squaw" is being removed from place names across the nation. But no proposals have been made to rename any of Utah's 40 geographic features that include the term, considered derogatory by many American Indians.Utah Committee on Geographic Names executive secretary Susan Whetstone says:
It's kind of a two-sided coin. Some tribes don't necessarily regard it as derogatory.
Linguists differ on whether squaw is a corruption of an Algonquian word that means woman or a Mohawk word "ojiskwa" — a derogatory term for female genitalia.
Ed Naranjo, vice chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation at Ibapah, has no doubts about the word, telling the Deseret News:That's an insult. It's like cussing someone out or calling them a name.
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Stop the madness! It is a choice to be offended!
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