squawdom

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noun

The world or sphere of squaws.

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Meanings

nounsquawdom (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe world or sphere of squaws.

    […] in his treatment of Native American women, what informed his portrait of Teal Eye, The Big Sky's exception to squawdom?

    2001, William E. Farr, William W. Bevis, Fifty Years After The Big Sky, page 137
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    […] 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.

    1877, William Wallace Beach, The Indian Miscellany, page 389

Origin

From squaw + -dom.

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squawdom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squawdom

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“squawdom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squawdom. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “squawdom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squawdom.

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