Kansas Cancels 'Squaw' Creek

The U.S. continues to undergo a cultural shift and offer redress for longstanding grievances.

In Kansas . . . Progressive ideas about the power of words are changing the landscape given a proposed rebranding that many believe is long overdue. 

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That word, "squaw," was formally declared derogatory last November in an order issued by Deb Haaland, the nation's first Native American Secretary of the Interior . . . Haaland ordered the Board on Geographic Names, the federal body tasked with naming geographic places, to find replacement names for more than 660 geographic features bearing that term, including the six sites in Kansas.

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These six Kansas creeks and streams will be renamed because of slur to indigenous women

Federal officials are expected next month to rename five creeks and a stream on federal land in Kansas because their names include a slur for Native American women. That word, "squaw," was formally declared derogatory last November in an order issued by Deb Haaland, the nation's first Native American Secretary of the Interior.