LAS CRUCES – The Las Cruces City Council updated the city's 40-year-old street naming guide, empowering city staff to initiate the change of a Las Cruces' Foothills road bearing a racist slur.

DENVER (CBS4) - The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is asking for public input on more than two dozen Colorado features that are currently named "squaw," a term that was declared derogatory ...

Sep. 18—When Brook Colley's father wrote a 1994 book about Oregon swimming holes, he refused to use the name Squaw Lake for a picturesque lake surrounded by forested mountains in the Applegate Valley.

The 28 geographic features in Colorado with the word "squaw" in their names are poised to bear new titles soon. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, the state board that reviews suggested ...

The Department of Interior has recommended new names for more than 660 geographical sites that it said have derogatory Indigenous slurs in their names, including 28 sites in Colorado. Secretary of ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The federal government said last week that new names are in place for nearly 650 sites in the U.S. that formerly bore the name “Squaw.” Those include the former Squaw Peak on ...

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names approved the name change on Thursday for what was formerly known as Squaw Mountain. The Colorado Geographic Naming Board voted in favor of the new name (pronounced ...

DENVER – A federal panel has approved renaming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 19th century, part of a ...

The Department of Interior removed the word “squaw” from the names of nearly 650 geographic features on Thursday, citing the word’s association with being a racist and sexist slur for indigenous women ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squaw Mountain Drive, in the Foothills area, is pictured in Las Cruces on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. LAS CRUCES – The Las Cruces City ...