If Squaw Peak Road is renamed, Great Barrington will have again rid itself of a place name considered offensive. Town officials plan to tackle this next month.
The federal renaming of a stream that runs through Fox Chapel, Indiana Township and O’Hara is a long-sought triumph for people who battled years against what is now a nationally recognized slur. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on Sept. 8 announced that Squaw Run will be called Sycamore Run, striking
WESTERN TREASURE VALLEY — Those who have maps of locations in the U.S. which feature landmarks with the word "squaw," may want to know that nearly 650 were recently changed