'Squaw' to be replaced for geographic features on federal lands
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is ordering a federal panel to implement procedures to eliminate what she called racist terms from federal use.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is ordering a federal panel to implement procedures to eliminate what she called racist terms from federal use.
Interior secretary takes steps to halt federal use of terms
The Biden administration has begun the process of replacing the names of some of the nation’s federal lands that have been deemed “derogatory.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday formally declared “squaw” a derogatory term and said she is taking steps to remove it from federal government use and to replace other derogatory place…
The Native American Rights Fund applauded Haaland’s move