• The English word squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women. Contemporary use of the term, especially by...
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    Olympic Valley (historically and informally known as Squaw Valley) is an unincorporated community located in Placer County, California northwest of Tahoe...
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    the resort was known as Squaw Valley, but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word "squaw". It was the host site for...
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  • Squaw Valley The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held...
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    Manufacturing Company to portray Fluff in The Magic Cloak of Oz and Button-Bright in His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. In 1916, at age 15, she appeared as a harem...
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    The Squaw Man (known as The White Man in the United Kingdom) is a 1914 American silent Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel, and...
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    A squaw, fiesta, Kachina, Tohono or patio dress is an American style of dress developed in Arizona. It became popular during the 1940s and 1950s, and...
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    and red. This man has abandoned civilization, married a squaw or squaws, and prefers to pass his life wandering in these deserts; carrying on, perhaps,...
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    influential in his writings, because he was a trusted source of information, as he was a Jesuit priest who had journeyed in Canada. But his "historical"...
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    orchestration and for a score that is more melodically integrated than is typical of his previous work. Fanciulla displays influences from composers Claude Debussy...
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    only documentary proof of his existence is a trading post record of a purchase of a barrel of flour for $12 for his "squaw." His remains (with those of others)...
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  • O'Neill CEO Toby Bost goes undercover to follow his company's clothing from production to sale. 55 11 "Squaw Valley" Andy Wirth March 8, 2013 (2013-03-08)...
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  • Cushing (November 28, 1913 – August 19, 2006) was a lawyer who founded Squaw Valley Ski Resort in California. Alexander Cochrane Cushing was born on...
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    Frog Woman Rock (redirect from Squaw Rock)
    against the steep, resistant face of Frog Woman Rock by an earthflow known as Squaw Rock Slide. The earth flow forms the east bank of the river where the vertical...
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    Piestewa Peak (/paɪˈɛstəwɑː/ py-ES-tə-wah; O'odham: Vainom Do'ag, formerly Squaw Peak), at 2,610 feet (796 m) is the second highest point in the Phoenix...
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    The Squaw Man is a 1905 western/drama stage play in four acts written by Edwin Milton Royle. It debuted on October 23, 1905, at the Wallack's Theatre...
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  • fatally wounded, and his daughters are carried off by Magua's war party. Magua tells the women that Cora will become his squaw, and Alice will be burned...
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    Stoney Squaw Mountain, often called just Stoney Squaw, is a mountain in the Bow River Valley of Banff National Park, adjacent to the town of Banff, Alberta...
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    children and take them to his wigwam, adding that 'when the moon was high' he would take us to Seattle in his canoe. His squaw was as kind and amiable as...
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    resort and hotel industry. He was most recently the president and CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, the parent company of Palisades Tahoe and Alpine Meadows...
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  • Community of Writers at Squaw Valley to clarify that the term "Squaw Valley" referred to the location only, as the word "squaw" was seen as a racially...
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  • coastal Northeastern Massachusetts. After his death in 1619, his wife, recorded by the English only as Squaw Sachem of Mistick, and three sons governed...
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    the early 1600s under the control of the sachem Nanepashemet and his wife the Squaw Sachem and their descendants. Although referred to in this article...
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    Fort Osage on the 10th of April and during the day Dorion "severely beat his squaw" as Marie desired to stay with newly made Osage acquaintances rather than...
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    captured. Magua offers to spare "Golden Hair" (Alice) if Cora will become his squaw; but Uncas, Chingachgook and Hawkeye counterattack and rescue the hostages...
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    showed her how he fed frogs to his snakes.": 22  She recalled playing at being Indians with Archie: "I was his squaw 'Dancing Moonbeam', he was 'Big...
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    War of 1812 to July 2015, the island was also known by the English name, Squaw Island. In June 2015, after being petitioned by Jodi Lynn Maracle, a Mohawk...
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    The Squaw Man is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of DeMille's 1914 film of the same name, which is based...
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  • and ambitious freestyle skier from Bonners Ferry, Idaho, travels to the Squaw Valley Ski Resort for the Freestyle World Championship. At a gas station...
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    The Sauk warrior Black Hawk, (1767-1838), writes in his autobiography of the mistreatment of his people due to alcohol: "The white people brought whisky...
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