The Department of Interior removed the word "squaw" from the names of nearly 650 geographic features on Thursday, citing the word's association with being a racist and sexist slur for indigenous women.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced that the Board on Geographic Names has officially replaced nearly 650 names that had previously included a slur historically used against Indigenous women. Sixty-five of those renamed geographic features are in Arizona.This final vote by the board was the last step in the U.S. government’s efforts to remove the term from federal
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Nearly 650 geographical sites on federal land have been voted new names after the previous ones contained the term "squaw," which the Department of the Interior deemed a slur.