Under a directive announced by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington state is set to rename 18 geographic location names that have been deemed derogatory to Native American women.
Proposal to nix derogatory term targets hundreds of US sites
Officially, there are six name change options for eighteen different sites in Washington state. For example, Squaw Creek Ridge could become Woody Creek. It’s part of a federal effort to change hundreds of sites in three dozen states that include the word “squaw”.
The agency has issued its own list of alternatives. The methodology for that process involved computer-generated findings of six nearby geographic locations and nominating one as
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