Word: squaw
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...Galleries. Durand-Ruel went down to their cellars and produced about a half million dollars worth of Renoirs, and at the Gallery of American Indian Art, a show of water colors went on view by the darling of Santa Fe's art colony, the plump and talented Pueblo squaw from Cochiti, Tonita Pena...
...your review of the film Ramona (TIME, Oct. 5), you use the word "squaw" in describing the mother of the heroine. I believe that this word means "woman" in the Algonquin language, but in most other tribes it was unknown, until introduced by whites. Among the Teton Sioux, of whom I am one, the word is a term of reproach applied to loose women. It was acquired from whites who used it freely in speaking slightingly of Indian women...
...Indian blood. Senora Moreno (Pauline Frederick) in whose house she lived, had brought her up like a white girl and she was loved by the Senora's son Phillipe (Kent Taylor). However, she was glad when she found out that her father's wife had been a squaw because it left her free to marry Alesandro (Don Ameche, late of NBC's Grand Hotel hour). They had a happy life until white usurpers put them oft the land they farmed. Trekking in the rain to new lands, their baby be came ill. Alesandro stole a horse...
...Huron camp after the fort has fallen, is a complicated triangular contest for life & death between three groups, representing three irreconcilable loyalties. Major Duncan Heyward (Henry Wilcoxon) and Colonel Munro are trying to beat the French; Magua (Bruce Cabot), renegade Huron scout, is trying to get himself a paleface squaw; Hawkeye (Randolph Scott), third-party Colonial, is trying to keep Heyward's Redcoat notions of wood-warfare from destroying all of them. Randolph Scott walks away with the picture and, in the end, with the affections of Alice. He confounds Magua's ambush in the woods, eludes...
...wife. Genteel Mrs. Demooth, most cultivated lady of Deerfield Settlement, went raving mad, shouted Biblical curses at her maid. Feeble-minded Nancy picked up with a raiding British soldier, bore his child in the woods during an attack, was saved by an Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking the wrong Indian tribes. When General Herkimer, superb Indian fighter, led 800 militiamen against Butler's force of a thousand British regulars and Tories and a thousand Indians...