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Many people who are Natie American consider the word "Squaw" racist and do not like it.

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Back then, when this was written, little thought was given as to what was offensive or racist; it was what it was. Nowadays, it's a whole different situation with everyone trying to be PC.

Squaw sounds like an Indian word to me. Did some white guy sit down and say to himself "Hmmm, now what word can I dream up that sounds Indian for the word "woman" so that a hundred years from now I can tick off some Native American Indian?" I don't think so. We latinos used to have a slang word for the word "girl"; it was "rooka" and for guy it was "bato". I guess some PC latino out there will someday be offended by it. Good grief people let's grow up a litte.

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i have visited this wonderful fort. Truly a trip back in time and some spirits are still there!

An early Boba Fett.

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American natives are adorable lovely nation. I love to be in contact with them

A formidable ally no doubt, and a terrible enemy to those whom he likely helped to subdue. His hair pipe breast plate speaks to years lived on the prairies as a free man, and his countenance speaks for the rest. Equally impressive is the field work of the "traveling" photographer (see the verso) and his tent studio.

This man knew the plains before more than a hundred white men every crossed it, I'd imagine. And he enjoyed Texas before there was a single law to govern it outside of the law of nature and the customs of his peers. He witnessed the passing of the stone age and the coming of the modern one.