A state committee on Thursday held the second of two special meetings to address how to comply with a recent order from the U.S. Department of the Interior. The order, which was issued earlier this year, calls for the rapid removal of a specific derogatory place name from all 50 states, including 18 locations in Washington.
Last November, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland – who’s the first Indigenous person to hold that office – issued Secretarial Order 3404 which declared a particular word for Indigenous women used in many place-names around the country to be derogatory. The Department of Interior then put in motion a process to eliminate that
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