On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Secretary Haaland announced the members of the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names.
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From the American Opinioin editorial: Late in 2021, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally created a process to replace derogatory names of geographic features across the nation. She declared the word “squaw” to be derogatory and ordered a federal panel called the Board on Geographic Names to move forward with procedures to remove that word from federal usage.