Word: teton
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...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...
...Passed a bill to .create a 100,000-acre national park in the Grand Teton Range, Wyoming...
...automobile had brought it to a stop to avoid running over two baby grouse, "no bigger than hickory nuts." The President had likewise committed himself to the plan of local boosters to add 400,000 acres to the Park by annexing the Jackson Hole country and part of the Teton Range...