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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, Tom. Of course, my concern was never the source or use development of the word. The article you included is dead on right. And, I believe, you are entirely right regarding the use of Native American’s as “mascots” for sports teams. To skim the surface of this controversy read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_mascot_controversy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_mascot_controversy</a> which includes a nice bibliography. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Tom Hansen [mailto:thansen@moscow.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 03, 2011 7:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> Andreas Schou<br><b>Cc:</b> Rosemary Huskey; vision2020@moscow.com; Dave<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Rick Perry's Newest Problem<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Courtesy of Dr. John E. Koontz, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><a href="http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq/etymology.htm">http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq/etymology.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><h3 style='-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469)'><a name=squaw2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is squaw a bad word?</span></a><o:p></o:p></h3><p style='-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469)'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The etymology is perfectly innocent. The problem with squaw has nothing to do with its etymology. Nigger has a perfectly unobjectionable etymology in Spanish <b>negro</b> 'black', for example. The difficulty with nigger is that it came to embody and represent a discriminatory attitude toward blacks. Similarly, the difficulty with squaw is that it is associated with a discriminatory attitude toward Indian people and sometimes by extension toward women generally. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469);-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469)'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The pattern of racism associated with squaw is not readily perceived by many people today, especially by non-Indians, perhaps because the word squaw is obsolescent, found mainly in historical literature and movies, or as a fossil in placenames and expressions like squawfish, squaw dance or squaw corn (a term I actually first heard used quite innocently by an Omaha man). It seems inoffensive to many people in these contexts, and they don't see any point in avoiding it, even though the same people would never use a form like nigger, and may instinctively avoid placenames based on such forms, as well as fossil expressions like niggertoes and perhaps even the wholly unconnected word niggardly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Another thing concerning offensive language . . .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As many schools have reestablished school mascots, so as not to seem offensive (i.e. Stanford University Indians reestablished as Stanford University Cardinal) . . .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>WHY haven't the Washington REDSKINS, an NFL team in our nation's capitol (for God's sake!), been required to establish a more appropriate mascot???<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span>Tom Hansen</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>