Posted on 09/13/2021 4:12:13 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
A year ago, a woman who is a member of the Washoe Tribe told me that every time she sees the "s-word," she feels a full-body reaction. The word, "squaw," is a painful reminder that historic violence against Indigenous people continues to linger in our daily lives, she said, as I was reporting a story for the Tahoe Quarterly.
The word has no ties to the language of the Washoe Tribe, whose ancestral land encompasses Lake Tahoe and the surrounding region; their word for women is damumóˑʔmoʔ. But it traveled across the country with settlers more than 150 years ago and was used to assert power over Indigenous people. Today, the slur is still displayed prominently in Washoe ancestral land.
It is on highway signs. It is used in the names of restaurants, hotels and coffee shops. The local utility district dropped the slur from their name last fall. And, for more than 70 years, it has been the name of one of the most iconic ski resorts in the world — until today.
On Monday morning, officials from Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Ski Resort announced a new name and logo to represent more than 6,000 acres of terrain, the place where the 1960 Winter Olympics were hosted and the mountains that inspired generations of Olympic gold medalists and some of the best skiers and snowboarders on the planet — Scot Schmidt, Jonny Moseley, Julia Mancuso, Shane McConkey, Ingrid Backstrom, Jeremy Jones, Cody Townsend, Elyse Saugstad and so many more.
That new name is Palisades Tahoe.
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Woke privilege.
Idiots.
Will they erase all the records from the 1960 Winter Olympics now?
What is the origin of the word Squaw? I always assumed it was a Native American word. A quick google search confirms it is a tribal word for “woman”.
I can see the woke try to convince the medalists who are still alive to burn their medals as a purifying act.
Squaw is not a put down.
It is used to reference a female spouse.
Just because this tribe didn’t use that name, it still doesn’t
mean it’s vile to use.
Is padre or madre insulting if used to describe an English
or woman? No.
This is nonsense.
Cuck Valley
Somehow it is offensive to one person to name a valley after an Indian Wife. So of course the entire civilization must change to apprease one mentally ill freak.
🙃
The next time I go there which is never, I have never been there, although I’ll feel much better.
What’s the name for “tranny”?
I keep thinking about the movie “Little Big Man”. 😆
People who’ve got the time to feel oppressed by microaggressions, statues or place names etc are not oppressed at all. Not one jot.
I do not care if the unoppressed feel oppressed.
I do not care if the Woke are offended.
Palisades? No doubt named after some cliffs in the area?
But those cliffs are named “palisades” after the vertical timber fences erected in defense of enemies - like the injuns that would attack the white settlers.
How about squak? Would you believe Sqak Valley? You’d only have to change one letter on the signs. Oh wait is that squack? Ok, only change two.
Rumor spread a while back that it actually meant "vagina" and was a derogatory term for Native American women. I haven't seen any conclusive proof of this, but the university Left immediately took it as gospel.
It’s in the eye of the beholder according to this article.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-word-squaw-offensive-or-not
They never get around to the part where Native American men treated women as less valuable than horses. If he thought she was cheating on him, he would bite off the tip of her nose.
[The Noble Red Man](http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/HNS/Indians/redman.html), a great, one-page read by Mark Twain.
They should have changed the name to Northern Pike Minnow
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