For decades, hundreds of geographical place names have insulted Native American women. Squaw Canyon. Squaw Valley. Squaw Creek. More than 650 geographical features on U.S. public lands include the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland declared the word “squaw” a derogatory term in November and her department is now taking the next steps to change the names of ...
A map shows 18 places in Washington state that are up for renaming in compliance with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s February proposal to remove the word “sq___” — an ethnic and sexual slur for ...
Oregon is in the process of axing a slew of derogatory place names across the state, and the public is invited to help with the task of coming up with new monikers. The effort was initiated by the ...
Biologists have developed a new method to measure the extent to which regional geographic features — including barriers between regions, like mountains or water — affect local rates of speciation, ...
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