Many Feathers and Much Paint Don't Make an Indian

In 1909, an article explains: "The term 'squaw' is misused by white people. An Indian's squaw is an Indian's woman of low repute. To call an Indian's woman a squaw would be an insult. My sister was once asked to attend a social function among the upper ten in one of the great cities, and the ladies in attendance thought they would ply her with questions. One of the ladies laid particular stress upon the word squaw in her remarks to sister and sister answered her question thusly:           'We squaws never think of having high heels put in the middle of our moccasins. No squaw was ever seen with a poodle in her arms where there ought to be a baby.' "                                                                              - Source: 1909, Aug 28. The Oshkosh Northwe...

 . . "Indians resent having the words 'squaw' and 'papoose' applied to their women and children. "The use of the terms 'buck,' 'squaw,' and 'papoose' is not only an offense against refined speech, but those who use such terms are thereby incapacitated to fairly appreciate the Indian, or anything of Indian culture. The psychological effect of the use of such terms is to inhibit the mind of one who uses them from estimating Indians in their proper human relationship. And I may say that all of the wrongs and injustices suffered by the Indian races, the native American race, none cause more bitter, burning resentment, and naturally so, than this of declassing Indians apart from all human kind by the use of these reprehensible and derogatory terms." - Melvin R Gilmore of the Museum of the American Indian in New York. - Source: 1927, Aug 19  Gasconade County Republican