Interior Department renaming sites containing Native slur
WASHINGTON — Nearly 650 geographic features will be renamed to remove a slur after the Board on Geographic Names voted on final replacements, the Interior Department announced on Thursday.
The valleys, streams, reservoirs and other geographic features will receive new names, effective immediately, that do not contain the word “squaw,” which the Interior Department said “has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.”
