Sep. 18—When Brook Colley's father wrote a 1994 book about Oregon swimming holes, he refused to use the name Squaw Lake for a picturesque lake surrounded by forested mountains in the Applegate Valley.

Six place names were changed across the region to remove “squaw” – a term “that has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur,” particularly for indigenous women, the U.S ...

FENTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - One of Fenton Township's many lakes now sports a new name. As of Friday, Squaw Lake is called Aanikegamaa Lake. It's part of a renaming effort by a branch of the U.S.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Lakes in Calhoun, Kent, and Allegan counties were on the list to be renamed after the U.S. declared a word derogatory against the Native American culture. "Squaw lakes" in the three ...

Growing up on the San Manuel Indian Reservation in San Bernardino County, Assemblymember James C. Ramos said “squaw” was one of many disparaging terms hurled at his Native American community. Now ...

Washington — Federal officials have renamed 32 sites on federal lands in Michigan to remove the ethnic slur "squaw" as part of a government initiative to eliminate derogatory terms from federal use.

As white settlers made their way west, so did the word “squaw.” Eventually, it took root in nearly 100 California place names, possibly more — Squaw Creek, Squaw Peak, Squaw Hollow, Squaw Flat. For a ...

After over two years of debate, the Fresno County community of Squaw Valley will be renamed. The new name for the census-designated place is Yokuts Valley. The decision was made Thursday morning in a ...

Two old and familiar places in New Jersey are about to get new names, thanks to a massive effort by the federal government to redraw the geographic map and take back an insult that Native Americans ...

NORTH HALEDON — A rock-strewn creek that courses from north to south through the borough will be renamed by the federal government under a plan to eliminate pejorative terms from hundreds of national ...

A new year brings plenty of new laws. It also likely brings a new name for a Lake County creek which currently is stuck with a derogatory moniker. Squaw Creek, out by Ingleside in Grant Township, was ...

The Biden administration followed through with its promise to get rid of the word "squaw" from hundreds of sites nationally and more than two dozen lakes, streams and other geographical names in ...