[saminfl]

The legitimate linguists trace the entemology to a word meaning young girl.

I am 65 years old, and until a couple of years ago, had never heard that "Squaw" meant a woman's genitalia. I'll bet this is another made up "fact" by liberals to get a minotiry group fired up.

[sharktrager]

It is. If you look at the research on the matter, the "genetalia" claim was based on someone noticing that the word for vagina in Mohawk has an ending that remotely sounds like squaw.

Unfortunately for those who prech this, the word is from Algonkwin (sp?), and meant young girl.

Some will say that, regardless of meaning, its usage has been derogatory. But the same could be said of the world "girl" when used to refer to any woman over 18, as well as "boy" for men over 18. Most nouns have at some point been used in a derogatory way by someone somewhere, whether it made sense or not.