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Members of the Yurok Tribe had been asking for a change to the name of Patrick’s Point State Park — now called Sue-meg State Park — since the turn of the century.

Renaming of California state park to Sue-meg after nearly a century comes after language was nearly destroyed

Sue-meg Village is located within the ancestral lands of the Yurok Tribe on the northern coast of California in Humboldt County, 26 miles north of Eureka and 46 miles south

A California state park has been renamed to reflect the name used by the Indigenous Yurok people.

The name change is the first of its kind for a California park, part of a broad effort to identify and rectify derogatory names attached to state parks and transportation systems, officials said.

California will rename a popular park in Northern California to include its traditional Yurok name after a request from the state's largest tribe

A new initiative to reconsider discriminatory names on public features in California has led to the renaming of Patrick’s Point State Park in Humboldt County. The park is now called Sue-Meg State Park. The name change comes at the request of the Yurok tribe.

The state Parks and Recreation Commission voted unanimously to change the name from Patrick's Point State Park to Sue-meg State Park after hearing testimony from tribal leaders about the cultural importance of the site. The park’s former namesake was accused of murdering multiple Native Americans.