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Definition of Old squaw

Old squaw
Squaw Squaw, n. [Massachusetts Indian squa, eshqua; Narragansett squ[^a]ws; Delaware ochqueu, and khqueu; used also in compound words (as the names of animals) in the sense of female.] A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup. Old squaw. (Zo["o]l.) See under Old.

Meaning of Old squaw from wikipedia

- The English word squaw is an ethnic and ****ual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by...
- Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Though squaw originated as a word simply meaning "young woman" in the M****achusett and...
- Peninsula, the Old Squaw Islands are part of the Arctic Archipelago and the Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. "Old Squaw Islands, Nunavut"...
- Squaw Island may refer to: Skenoh Island, (formerly known as Squaw Island) New York Susquehanna River Island, (formerly known as Squaw island) New York...
- Olympic Valley (historically and informally known as Squaw Valley) is an unincorporated community located in Placer County, California northwest of Tahoe...
- co;2. Schorger, A. W. (September 1947). "The deep diving of the loon and old-squaw and its mechanism" (PDF). The Wilson Bulletin. 59 (3): 151–159. Fastovsky...
- the dead and impure corpuscles."[citation needed] Old Squaw was reportedly so named because "the old women of Indian tribes once living in Kansas found...
- Lady Franklin Landslip Lock Low Marvin Mumiksaa Nakoaiyet Nova Zembla Old Squaw Otrick Pandora Payne Peter Richards Pilattuaq Pisiktarfik Plover Prescott...
- they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured...
- 2014-01-21. Schorger, A. W. (September 1947). "The deep diving of the loon and old-squaw and its mechanism" (PDF). The Wilson Bulletin. 59 (3). The Wilson Ornithological...