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U.S. completes renaming of 650 places to remove derogatory term

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The Department of the Interior issued an order last year calling for more than 650 public places in the United States that use the term to be renamed. Forty-one places in Wyoming now have new names. About a third of those are creeks, including the waterway west of Casper that has been dubbed Platte Creek.

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The Hindu

U.S. changes names of places with racist term for Native women

The U.S. government has renamed hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features that carry a racist and misogynistic term for a Native American woman

2 years ago·India

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Reuters

U.S. completes renaming of 650 places to remove derogatory term

The Biden administration on Thursday said it had completed the removal of the word "squaw" from nearly 650 place names on federal land as part of an effort to reckon with the nation's racist past. The Interior Deparment had said in November of last year that it was beginning a process to do away the word, a term for Indigenous women that Native Americans find offensive.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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US changes names of places with racist term for Native women

The U.S. government has renamed hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features that carry a racist and misogynistic term for a Native American woman.

2 years ago·United States

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USA Today

US changes names of nearly 650 places with racist Native American women term

The U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a racist and misogynistic slur for a Native American woman.

2 years ago·United States

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KRDO

US changes names of places with racist term for Native women

By MEAD GRUVER Associated PressCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. government has renamed hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features that carry a racist and misogynistic term for a Native American woman. New names for nearly 650 places bearing the offensive word “squaw” include the mundane, peculiar and Indigenous language terms. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the changes Thursday after an almost yearlong process. Haa…

2 years ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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KIFI

US changes names of places with racist term for Native women - Local News 8

By MEAD GRUVER Associated PressCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands in the West and elsewhere.New names for nearly 650 places bearing the offensive word “squaw” include the mundane (Echo Peak, Texas), peculiar (No Name Island, Maine) and Indigenous te…

2 years ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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