The measure required the word to be removed from all geographic place names in California, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law. Now, all of the places identified by the state commission must ...

In a ceremony joined by Native American tribal leaders, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that will remove the word “squaw” from nearly 100 geographic features and place names across ...

Official efforts to rename places with the S-word began in 2021 when U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to hold that office, banned the term from federal land and ...

Ahwatukee Foothills, a Phoenix village, has a rather unusual name with a mysterious origin. Here's where it came from and what the word means.

New names for nearly 650 places bearing the offensive word "squaw" include the mundane (Echo Peak, Texas), peculiar (No Name Island, Maine) and Indigenous terms (Nammi'I Naokwaide, ...

One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. In more cases than one may think, geographic names were derived from a Native American word ...

IDEAS May I have a word: Playing with place names The winning entry, named after a Massachusetts reservoir, gets a rich backstory and a whimsical new meaning.

In 1999, the Montana Legislature enacted a law, H.B. 412, requiring state agencies that own or manage public land to rename any sites or geographic locations that contain the derogatory ...

The measure required the word to be removed from all geographic place names in California, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law. Now, all of the places identified by the state commission must ...