Federal Government Erases Derogatory Place Names
The announcement Thursday concludes a year-long process to replace nearly 650 locations with names involving a racist term for Native American women, including two in the Flathead
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The announcement Thursday concludes a year-long process to replace nearly 650 locations with names involving a racist term for Native American women, including two in the Flathead
A Blackfeet tribal leader was named to the advisory committee tasked with recommending changes to hundreds of names on federal land across the U.S.
In 1999, the Montana Legislature enacted a law, H.B. 412, requiring state agencies that own or manage public land to rename any sites or geographic locations that contain the derogatory
A 1999 Montana law requires sites that contain the word "squaw" to be renamed. But the state has yet to expunge the racial slur from two locations.