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The term is often considered to be pejorative these days, but the word "squaw" was used in the past to describe a Native American woman who was married.

Squaw is an English language word borrowed from the Algonquian languages that means an indigenous woman of North America. The word squaw was used for "indian woman" by the early English settlers in Massachusetts by the early 1600s and was adopted by them from the word squa that the local Native Americans used to mean a young female.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was widely used as and considered to be derogatory and is now offensive to many Native Americans.

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