Curyung Tribal Council to gather community input for changing a creek's derogatory name
The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
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The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
Last spring, months before the federal government began steps to change those names, three elementary students wanted to rename a Dillingham creek that uses that slur, as well as a road that bears the creek’s name.
The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages
Last spring, months before the federal government began steps to change those names, three elementary students wanted to rename a Dillingham creek that uses that slur, as well as a road that bears the creek’s name.
The Department of the Interior’s Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force published a list of replacement names for the geographic features with the name “sq***,” which was officially declared a derogatory term last year by Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland.