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It means the same as it does in any other context.
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The noun for a female Native American was squaw. The noun for a male Native American was brave. These terms originated at a time in American history when European settlers used these terms to categorize Native Americans as a lesser human than themselves. Today both squaw and brave can be offensive terms; it is better say "man" and "woman" or "Native American man or woman."
He signed a law that limited the number of terms a president can have to 2
Pre-history is the time before writing, where as history is after.
How can we really understand 'Where we are and, where we are going' without knowing where we started, and how we got here? (That's the answer in the simplest terms I can think of.)
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female.The noun for a female Native American was squaw.The noun for a male Native American was brave.These terms originated at a time in American history when European settlers used these terms to categorize Native Americans as a lesser human than themselves. Today both squaw and brave can be offensive terms; it is better say "man" and "woman" or "Native American man or woman."
In English there are no masculine or feminine forms. English uses gender specific nouns for male or female. The noun for a female Native American was squaw. The noun for a male Native American was brave. These terms originated at a time in American history when European settlers used these terms to categorize Native Americans as a lesser human than themselves. Today both squaw and brave can be offensive terms; it is better say "man" and "woman" or "Native American man or woman."
History is a lie.
what happened in the past
The American Civil War, The War of Northern Aggression, Mr. Lincoln's War, the War Between the States. In the south, many referred to the Civil War as "The War of Secession". They wanted to secede from the Union, to be independent from the United States. To the south it was not a civil war.
Whenever a basketball player is dribbling down the court and a defensive player is coming from behind, your teammates/fans yell "wolf" to tell the person with possession of the ball to beware that the defense is about to steal the ball.