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Removing ‘Squaw’ from the Lexicon
By Rukmini Callimachi, The Associated Press
Published: April 1, 2005 06:30
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Excerpt: {magazine_leadin}SISTERS, Ore.—Olivia Wallulatum finds it hard to even look at the sign, a marker for the Squaw River. It reminds her of all the names she was called as a girl. And she wants something done about it. She wants the name changed. “I don’t care what they change it to. I just want to see it go,” said Wallulatum, 50, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs. Nearly a thousand places across the country—rivers, buttes, meadows, mountains—are named “squaw,”…
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