squawdom

English

Etymology

squaw +‎ -dom

Noun

squawdom (uncountable)

  1. The world or sphere of squaws.
    • 1877, William Wallace Beach, The Indian Miscellany, page 389:
      […] we found she wanted to marry a white man, who would be rich enough to support her in the style to which she has been accustomed, for she alone, of all her father's family, is relieved from the curse of squawdom — hard labor.
    • 2001, William E. Farr, William W. Bevis, Fifty Years After The Big Sky, page 137:
      […] in his treatment of Native American women, what informed his portrait of Teal Eye, The Big Sky's exception to squawdom?
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