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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 747 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SQUAW , the anglicized word for woman among the See also:

North See also:American See also:Indians; the See also:Massachusetts See also:Indian See also:form is squa or schqua, the Narraganset squdwo, the See also:Cree eskwuo, See also:Delaware ochqueu, khqueu, &c. It is also used in See also:composition with names of animals to denote the See also:female.

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