Wasi'chu
Sign in to savethumb|Sioux people's and allies' protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-17 were often framed as a fight against wasi'chu interests. In modern usage, the word implies colonialist greed and corporate power.
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- Etymology
- Wasi'chu in contemporary English language sources
- Derived and related terms
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Sioux people's and allies' protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-17 were often framed as a fight against wasi'chu interests. In modern usage, the word implies colonialist greed and corporate power.
'''Wasi'chu is a loanword from the Sioux language (wašíču or waṡicu''' using different Lakota and Dakota language orthographies) which means a non-Indigenous person, particularly a white person, often with a disparaging meaning.
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