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The term squaw is considered offensive by Indigenous peoples in America and Canada due to its use for hundreds of years in a derogatory context [3] that demeans Native American women. This has ranged from condescending images (e.g., picture postcards depicting "Indian squaw and papoose ") to racialized epithets.
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Fred H. Lau – former chief of police, San Francisco Police Department; Nicole LeFavour – Idaho State Senator; Wilma Mankiller (1945–2010) – first woman elected to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation; John Márquez – politician; George Miller – U.S. Congressman, 1975-2015; Richard Oakes (1942–1972) – Native American activist
Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term "squaw" from over 30 geographic features and place names on California lands.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition already had what was considered the most extensive list of boarding schools. The Minnesota-based group has spent years building its ...
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Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.
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