Posted
2/26/2007 10:24:00 PM
by Douglas
Nobody likes racial slurs, well, nobody 'cept rappers, but still, do you need a
law?Bernal is among Native Americans across the West fighting to excise "squaw" from the names of region's waterways, peaks and river valleys.
The 55 tribes of the Pacific Northwest say the "S-word," once commonly used when referring to an American Indian woman, is demeaning and never uttered on reservations.
They claim the term evokes the painful chapter in American history when Indian lands were confiscated and native peoples were subjugated by whites.
And when exactly did this chapter end? When they got casinos?