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The valleys, streams, reservoirs and other geographic features will receive new names, effective immediately, that do not contain the word

People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory.

People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible.

People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible.

A task force is identifying new names for sites on federal land that bear a derogatory term referring to Indigenous women

A state panel is accepting suggestions through April 4 for possible replacement names for 28 geographic features in the state containing the name “squaw,” including one in Colorado National Monument.

The federal Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force has recommended new names for more than 660 geographical sites across the country.

The Department of the Interior’s Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force published a list of replacement names for the geographic features with the name “sq***,” which was officially declared a derogatory term last year by Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland.

A rock formation in Colorado National Monument is among more than 660 geographic features nationwide that are being renamed because they contain the name “squaw,” which Interior Secretary Deb Haaland