There is no possible way that anyone can be all things to all people, and there are some people to whom we hope that we will never be anything. The person who criticized Nalora for using the word "SQUAW" is one for whom I feel nothing but contempt. How dare he (or she) be so small minded and so totally unaware of the incredible work that Nalora has done for us all--an absolutely thankless task evidently. To attack such a person as Nalora for using such a word in its HISTORICAL CONTEXT is absolutely unconscionable. I am so furious and so saddened by this display of mindless "political correctness". It is impossible to clean up our past in regard to its language--it is a cast in stone historical fact. In such a forum as this genealogical one if in no other, we should all realize that the past is set regardless of how we happen to feel concerning it. We can not change it, nor can we change the words which were used in the past. WE CANNOT JUDGE THE PAST NOR ITS VOCABULARY BY OUR PRESENT DAY ATTITUDES. I can only hope that Nalora will "consider the source" of the individual who was so vehement in his (her) opposition to an historically accurate term. -----Original Message----- From: Nalora <vashti@theshop.net> To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com <CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 12:38 AM Subject: [CHOCTAW] My apologies and goodbye >Seems I offended someone with the use of the word SQUAW. > >I am offended by anyone being offended by words. > >They ban Mark Twain for that in Enid, Oklahoma, ya know. > >I am unsubbing. Yall have a good time. > > >Nalora > > > >==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== >OK Surname Registry - added yours? http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknames/ >Search 4 surnames - http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/search.htm > >

Amen! And I am forwarding all your messages to Nalora (as she has already unsubed) in hopes that she will reconsider and come back. This has happened to her many times on other lists and I just wish it would stop. Sharon, you hit the nail on the head and I wish I had read your message first before I sent my own to her explaining how I felt and that I wish she'd come back. You explained it so much better than I. Jacque ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon DeLoache <deloache@intellex.com> To: <CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW] My apologies and goodbye > There is no possible way that anyone can be all things to all people, and > there are some people to whom we hope that we will never be anything. The > person who criticized Nalora for using the word "SQUAW" is one for whom I > feel nothing but contempt. How dare he (or she) be so small minded and so > totally unaware of the incredible work that Nalora has done for us all--an > absolutely thankless task evidently. To attack such a person as Nalora for > using such a word in its HISTORICAL CONTEXT is absolutely unconscionable. I > am so furious and so saddened by this display of mindless "political > correctness". It is impossible to clean up our past in regard to its > language--it is a cast in stone historical fact. In such a forum as this > genealogical one if in no other, we should all realize that the past is set > regardless of how we happen to feel concerning it. We can not change it, > nor can we change the words which were used in the past. WE CANNOT JUDGE > THE PAST NOR ITS VOCABULARY BY OUR PRESENT DAY ATTITUDES. > > I can only hope that Nalora will "consider the source" of the individual who > was so vehement in his (her) opposition to an historically accurate term. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nalora <vashti@theshop.net> > To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com <CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 12:38 AM > Subject: [CHOCTAW] My apologies and goodbye > > > >Seems I offended someone with the use of the word SQUAW. > > > >I am offended by anyone being offended by words. > > > >They ban Mark Twain for that in Enid, Oklahoma, ya know. > > > >I am unsubbing. Yall have a good time. > > > > > >Nalora > > > > > > > >==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== > >OK Surname Registry - added yours? http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknames/ > >Search 4 surnames - http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/search.htm > > > > > > > > > ==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== > Pushmataha County, Oklahoma -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpushma >