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Squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for Indigenous North American women.
Squaw may also refer to:
Places
edit- Squaw Township, Warren County, Iowa, USA
- Squaw Creek (disambiguation)
- Squaw Island (disambiguation)
- Squaw Lake (disambiguation)
- Squaw Peak (disambiguation)
- Squaw Point, a point of land on Gull Lake in Minnesota, U.S.
- Squaw Rock, another name for Frog Woman Rock, a volcanic monolith in Mendocino County, California
- Squaw Valley (disambiguation)
Plants
edit- Squaw grass, Xerophyllum tenax
- Squaw root, Conopholis americana
- Squaw weed, Senecio aureus
- Squaw tea, the herb Ephedra nevadensis or an herbal tea containing ephedra
Other uses
edit- Squaw Sachem of Mistick (c. 1590-1650 or 1667), a leader of a Massachusett tribe who deeded large tracts of land in eastern Massachusetts to early colonial settlers
- McGill Squaws, former name of the women's collegiate sports teams of McGill University, now McGill Martlets
See also
editSearch for "squaw" on Wikipedia.
- All pages with titles containing squaws
- All pages with titles containing squaw
- Oldsquaw, a former common name in America for the Long-tailed duck
- Squawfish, a common name for Ptychocheilus