To Scope, You want to talk about respect? What happened to the respect due Nolora for all the GENUINE help she is giving people trying to find thier ancestors??!! I am Choctaw, nothing to prove, monitoring this site to find lost relatives and trace my tribe back because I am also S.E. Cherokee. Notice I did not call myself Indian (speaking of respect) since I am of the Native People of this land and none of my family ever came from India. A few drunk, diseased Europeans didn't know where they were and out of RESPECT for my people, I refuse to let a bunch of sailors define us. Squaw was notice past tense here, was, used regularly just like nigger, cracker, and a bunch of other derogetory words. If you go back to some earlier American writings, you will find these words used regularly when describing the " lower class" along with some slave manifests, marrige certificates, and other legal documents. That doesn't make it ok then and it is certainly not ok now. You have to look at things in the context of history and remember where they came from in order to NEVER ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN. Nalora was not calling anyone a squaw, she was relaying information from a document or story... that tells you how old the story is, what period it came from, and language can help you to pinpoint a timeperiod in order to know where to look up records. No disrespect was intended obviously. Like I said, she did not call anyone a squaw. If she did, then yes, there would be something to be upset about and let me tell you I would be leading the charge... and I have on several occasions. Nalora is deserving of respect, she has helped a lot of people. We all need to get past this misunderstanding and do what we should do best, stick together and support oneanother. There aren't enough of us to fight weather Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Lakota, Creek, whatever tribe we belong to we are one people and we need to stand as one people. We all seem to agree that the present USE of squaw is derogatory and should not be used by ANYONE, but in the context of history, it could be a reminder of what we will never allow again to happen to us... Dani Ho!! ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.