Several natural locations around Washington now go by new names, following an effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior to scrub Indigenous slurs from them. FOX13
now go by new names, following an effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior to scrub Indigenous slurs from them.
Specifically, the aim was to remove the word ‘squaw’—an ethnic and sexual slur historically used to refer to Indigenous women. The word is considered universally offensive by Native Americans and First Nation people, but is found in the names of hundreds of natural locations and geographic features around the U.S. and Canada.
In 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland declared the term to be derogatory, and formally ordered it be removed from names of natural locations.The Washington State Committee on Geographic Names has been
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