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Haaland orders review of racist place names on federal lands

Writer's picture: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Friday that the agency will create a process to review and replace racially derogatory terms used in the names of places on federal lands.

Haaland, the nation’s first Native American Cabinet secretary, declared the term “squaw,” a pejorative for Indigenous women, to be derogatory, and ordered the creation of procedures to replace all federal uses of the term. The word currently appears in the name of more than 650 federal land units, according to Board on Geographic Names data.


https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/582354-interior-secretary-announces-review-of-racist-place-names-on

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