Native Americans also insist that squaw is a derogatory term. Some believe it derives from a French corruption of an Iroquois epithet for vagina, analogous to cunt in English. Others believe it meant bitch in Algonquian dialects spoken in Virginia.
James W. Loewen
Native Americans also insist that squaw is a derogatory term. Some believe it derives from a French corruption of an Iroquois epithet for vagina, analogous to cunt in English. Others believe it meant bitch in Algonquian dialects spoken in Virginia.