I too mostly just listen and stay quite, but I seem to recall hearing squaw a lot while I was growing up. I always felt glad for someone to say I looked like a squaw. Because that meant they could see my heritage showing in me. In some books I have read they referred to a squaw as being a good wife, mother, And yes I have even heard about how the squaw was supposed to always walk behind her husband, Well I just took it that was the way they did things. And yes I have been picked on and told he squaw get behind me and walk. I just smile and say watch out this squaw might take a scalp or two if picked on alot. And please don't panic cause I said take a scalp. I most definitely am not making fun of native Americans. My great, great, grandmother was 1/2 Choctaw so I am told. Am also told I look more like her than some of her own children. I think the most awful use of the word squaw I have ever heard was on old western movies when the cowboys downed them and degraded them, or when a white woman come back from living with native Americans they called her a squaw. Well, I think alot of those women were proud to be called squaw, as some of them would rather die than go back to the whites. Look at quanaha Parkers Mom, she hated coming back to whites. and yes I may have spelled his name wrong sorry if I did. Personally wish I was back in the old days Julie Moton jmoton3557@aol.com