California slated to rename places to remove Native American slur

The California Natural Resources Agency connected Friday said that a racist word for a Native American pistillate volition beryllium removed from much than 30 locations successful 15 counties, according to a property merchandise issued Friday.

The property merchandise noted that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) successful 2022 signed a measure that bans the word "squaw." The bureau was ordered to rename streets, bridges, nationalist buildings, cemeteries and different places that usage the slur.

"The 'sq_' is simply a connection that denigrates Native American women and dehumanizes them," California Assemblymember James Ramos (D), who spearheaded the bill, said successful the release.

The merchandise stated the California Advisory Committee connected Geographic Names is acceptable to instrumentality the caller names, which were selected successful consultation with the state's Native American tribes, by Jan. 1.

The announcement comes connected the heels of a skis edifice successful California changing its sanction aft facing disapproval implicit its archetypal name, which utilized the slur. The caller name, Palisades Tahoe, was announced successful September aft the edifice acknowledged its erstwhile sanction was a racist and sexist slur pursuing an interior probe from August 2020 into the word and its etymology.

The Interior Department had besides announced in September that it removed the slur from national spot names aft announcing a reappraisal successful November. 

The section said the national Board connected Geographic Names has voted connected replacement names for much than 600 places that included the term. The section also issued a full map of places wherever names were replaced.