Many landmarks are named after historical events in a location, early settlers of an area or can reflect the whims of land surveyors who created early maps of the American frontier, researchers and historians said. Here’s why the term squaw became a lightning rod for removing offensive names from places and how past efforts to clean up the language of landmarks have fared. “Today’s actions will accelerate an important process to reconcile derogatory place names and mark a significant step in honoring the ancestors who have stewarded our lands since time immemorial.” Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage - not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression,” Haaland, the first Indigenous woman to head the department, said in a press release. “Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. The orders, which continue an ongoing movement that goes back decades of eliminating derogatory names from landmarks, is expected to streamline and speed up what has usually been a lengthy, painstaking process to change the offensive name of a geographic site. 19, along with another directive establishing a process to review and replace other offensive names identifying the nation’s geographic features. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a Native American from New Mexico, issued the order on Nov. When variants of the name are included in a search (such as historical or local references that are not formally recognized) the frequency of the term squaw as a place name can almost triple in some states. Idaho is a distant second with 69 places identified by the now-banned term followed by Arizona with 68 places. Board on Geographic Names, which has a search tool to look up place names in every state.
In California, the sexual slur for Native American women appears on 87 places, according to the U.S. The Department of the Interior recently ordered that the derogatory term “squaw” be removed from lakes, mountains, trails and other features on federal land - and the largest share of the cleanup will be taking place in the West.
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