Name of red indian woman

Answer 1

That depends whether you are interested in historical accuracy, if you are genuinely interested in native languages and cultures - or if you prefer to promote the "ignorant white American" tradition of calling any native American female a squaw.

"Squaw" is a word used in American English that derives from the Natick (Wampanoag/Narragansett/Massachusett) words squaas, squas and squaus meaning a female. Even the neighbouring Algonquian-speaking tribes had their own different word for this:

• Delaware ochqueu or xkwe,
• Powhatan crenepo or cucheneppo or -squa
• Menominee ikwe,
• Ojibwe anishinaabekwe,
• Shawnee ichque,
• Abenaki phanem,
• Maliseet -sqehs
• Mohegan sqá
• Naskapi iskwaaw

Other linguistic groups had their own words for a female or a woman:

• Kiowa mahyehn
• Comanche nai'bi
• Onondaga hehron goniagui
• Oneida laothuwisʌ́tslaˀ
• Cayuga agǫgweh
• Seneca yakökwe
• Mohawk yakon:kwe
• Maya (Yucatec) ko'olel or xch'uup
• Flathead (Kalispel) smeem
• Lakota win
• Crow bia
• Hidatsa mia or wia
• Arikara sápat
• Mandan wiinh
• Shoshone wa'ipi
• Paiute mogo'ne
• Zuni mak'i
• Aztec (Nahuatl) cihuatl
• Yaqui jamut
• Hopi wùuti
• Cahuilla nícill
• Inca (Quechua) warmi or huarmi
• Xavante pi'õ

The idea that all native American women are "squaws" is clearly totally wrong and the use of that word should be avoided - it is simply insulting, ignorant and simplistic.

^ We actually prefer to be called "Indigenous" because any natural born human inhabiting either North or South America is a "Native American". Interesting side note, people from other areas of the world invade "Native American" chat rooms and post some pretty offensive and anti-American Propaganda. They are mistaken because they took the literal translation of "Native American" and assume that a "Native American" chat room is full of average Americans. Little do they they're talking to a bunch of savages !!!

Answer 2

That would depend on the language of the particular tribe.