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Re: Native Americans seek to outlaw the 'S-word'
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Originally Posted by Samantha
Whether or not squaw means cunt, it's still a degrading word used by men to keep women 'down'. It certainly is the same, to a native american woman as nigger is to a black man.
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It's not a matter of baning a word - it's a matter of changnig state, city and county decided names. AZ voted on it years ago, and banned the word squaw. Not coincidentally, AZ has the largest native population in the country. 
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03-07-2007
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