Squaw-Humper Creek

Squaw-Humper Creek is a stream in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, in the United States.[1]

According to tradition, Squaw-Humper Creek was named for a local white man who had a live-in Native American girlfriend (squaw).[2] The term "squaw-humper" was cited as "contemptuous" as early as 1940.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Squaw-Humper Creek
  2. ↑ William Bright (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4.
  3. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 62.

Coordinates: 43°36′50″N 102°57′27″W / 43.6138°N 102.9574°W / 43.6138; -102.9574


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