US changes names of nearly 650 places with racist Native American term
The U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a racist and misogynistic slur for a Native American woman.
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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