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squaw dance
Orig. Northwest
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in mining towns, a dance attended by white men and, mainly, by Indian women.
Quotations
1864
Oregon Jack gave a squaw dance at which everybody got very drunk, I believe. . . .
1958
One of the main amusements, apart from the saloons, was a folk rite known as the "squaw dance."