Interior Department renaming sites containing Native slur
The valleys, streams, reservoirs and other geographic features will receive new names, effective immediately, that do not contain the word
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The valleys, streams, reservoirs and other geographic features will receive new names, effective immediately, that do not contain the word
People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory.
People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible.
People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S. Secretary of the Interior launched the search for new names by ordering a specific racial slur stricken off the map nationwide as expeditiously as possible.
A task force is identifying new names for sites on federal land that bear a derogatory term referring to Indigenous women