The "Squaw"="Prostitute" thing is an urban myth. Look at snopes.com.

We had a creek here (near Seattle) called "Nigger Creek" which the WHITE folks worked hard to change the name of, but the BLACK folks wanted it kept, because it was a historical marker of the fact that a black man homesteaded there in our state's pioneer days. His name was something boring like Johnson, and the powers-that-be ultimately changed the name of the creek to Johnson Creek in his honor, but that (according to the people fighting the name change) doesn't relay the fact that a large chunk of Snohomish County was owned by a freedman in the mid-to-late 1800s to the person driving over the creek or seeing it on a map.

PC is funny business, ain't it?

Alex
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