Yurok people see victory in decades-long effort to revive language
Renaming of California state park to Sue-meg after nearly a century comes after language was nearly destroyed
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Renaming of California state park to Sue-meg after nearly a century comes after language was nearly destroyed
A hip-hop artist plays with an orchestra, plus a California park gets an Indigenous name, and we look to the future of education
Park named returned to original
The name change is the first of its kind for a California park, part of a broad effort to identify and rectify derogatory names attached to state parks and transportation systems, officials said.
Jessica Cejnar / Monday, May 10 @ 6:02 p.m. 'It’s Emotional and It's Not For the Faint of Heart'; True North Committee Embarks on Getting Patrick's Point, Fort Humboldt, Peacock Bar Renamed in Local Languages Patrick's Point State Park, where Sumeg Village is located, is one of the state park units True North Organizing Network is proposing to rename. Photo courtesy of California State Parks. Six months after California officials laid the groundwork for changing names of places associated with discrimination and genocide against Native Americans, a new True ...