Posted on 11/21/2021 8:56:20 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
US will now establish woke task force to RENAME any federal lands deemed to have racist names like Squaw Peak in Utah and Chinaman's Gulch in Colorado
The US Department of Interior is creating a new task force to identify federal lands that contain slurs or derogatory terms and rename them, mirroring changes already made by sports franchises and private businesses in recent years.
The Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force will include representatives from federal land management agencies along with diversity, equity and inclusion experts, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Friday.
The process will include dialogue with tribes, state and local governments and the public, the department said, adding that it was now classifying the term 'squaw' - referring to an indigenous woman - as officially derogatory.
There are 600 federal land units with the name 'squaw,' according to the Native American Rights Fund, including Squaw Lakes in Oregon.
Other places named 'negro,' 'wetback,' and 'Chinaman' - all considered derogatory names for black, Latino and Asian people, respectively - will also likely be re-examined.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I called it
BBB = commie payroll
It will always be Burma to me!
It’s easier to do crap like this than it is to solve problems.
Deb Harland who’s father was a Nordic man from Minnesota
I guess whit folks are bad unless they ain’t
Notice hey didn’t mention Squaw Valley in California…..home of the 1960 winter olympics
Then there is North Carolina’s “French Broad” River...
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