She Finds Bread Name Insulting

In Rose Dosti’s Aug. 12 Culinary SOS column, I was shocked to see a recipe for squaw bread. The word “squaw” is a [highly offensive] Algonquin word.

When Europeans first had contact with the Algonquin Nation on the East Coast and learned the meaning of the word squaw, they immediately began to use the word to refer to all native women.

To use the word squaw today is not only a grave insult to Native American women, it is an insult to the dignity of every woman. I wonder if the bakeries that continue to use the word squaw in their labeling would be willing to sell a bread [as offensive to men].

HASHI-HANTA

American Indian Movement

Sells, Ariz.