Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian Reservation at Tama, Iowa, Charlie Davenport took a close look at the squaw corn,† noted that its husks were loose and thin, predicted that the U.S. would have a long Indian summer and that real winter would probably not set in until after Christmas...
Indians hired to give frontier flavor to the Calgary Stampede (TIME, July 21) are paid on a graduated scale for all services rendered: $5 to a chief, $3 to a sub-chief, $1 to every brave, squaw and papoose for each parade; $5 for the best-dressed buck and squaw; $2 to $7 for each Indian race. They want more. Last week, with the help of Paleface John Laurie, Calgary schoolteacher, they presented their demands...
...Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...
...become seasoned mountain men, almost indistinguishable from the Indians in their grease-and-bloodstained buckskins and their way of life. Then Boone and Jim say goodbye to Scout Summers and head north to find Teal Eye; Boone had always had a hankering to settle down with her as his squaw...
...month, artists spared no pains to reproduce the intricate, scaly silhouette of an Indian archer weather vane, the plump tarnished elegance of a cigar store squaw, or the streamlined rush of the rooster carved by a Vermont cabinetmaker for a horse-drawn carrousel at a St. Johnsbury fair...