Don't leave the list Nalora! WE NEED YOU! What one small minded person says is of no consequence compared to the selfless help you have provided countless others in our search for ancestors. PLEASE COME BACK! gfaye <><><> Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW] My apologies and goodbye Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:42:35 -0000 From: "Sharon DeLoache" <deloache@intellex.com> To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com "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."