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The U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a racist and misogynistic slur for a Native American woman.

The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands in the West and elsewhere.

The changes announced Thursday capped an almost yearlong process that began after the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency, took office in 2021.

Indigenous headlines for Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographi...

The U.S. government has renamed hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features that carry a racist and misogynistic term.

The U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a racist and misogynistic slur for a Native American woman.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands in the West and elsewhere. New names for nearly 650 places bearing the offensive word […]

The term in question has met wide scorn in the U.S. only somewhat recently, but changing place names because of broadening opposition to racism has long…