Tahoe ski resort Squaw Valley finally loses its 'racist, sexist' name, is now Palisades Tahoe

SFGate ^ | 9/13/2021 | By Julie Brown

[NohSpinZone]

Frankly, I'm surprised it hadn't happened sooner given all the wokeness around here. Lame.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Woke privilege.

[DesertRhino]

Idiots.

[God luvs America]

Will they erase all the records from the 1960 Winter Olympics now?

[monkeyshine]

What is the origin of the word Squaw? I always assumed it was a Native American word. A quick google search confirms it is a tribal word for “woman”.

[NohSpinZone]

I can see the woke try to convince the medalists who are still alive to burn their medals as a purifying act.

[DoughtyOne]

Squaw is not a put down.

It is used to reference a female spouse.

Just because this tribe didn’t use that name, it still doesn’t
mean it’s vile to use.

Is padre or madre insulting if used to describe an English
or woman? No.

This is nonsense.

[Old Yeller]

Cuck Valley

[Seruzawa]

Somehow it is offensive to one person to name a valley after an Indian Wife. So of course the entire civilization must change to apprease one mentally ill freak.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Squaw is a perfectly good word, denoting a Native American woman. Colleen denotes an Irish woman. Mamacita denotes a Mexican woman. What's the problem?

[Jane Long]

Woke Valley

🙃

[boomop1]

The next time I go there which is never, I have never been there, although I’ll feel much better.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

What’s the name for “tranny”?

I keep thinking about the movie “Little Big Man”. 😆

[Rurudyne]

People who’ve got the time to feel oppressed by microaggressions, statues or place names etc are not oppressed at all. Not one jot.

I do not care if the unoppressed feel oppressed.

I do not care if the Woke are offended.

[21twelve]

Palisades? No doubt named after some cliffs in the area?

But those cliffs are named “palisades” after the vertical timber fences erected in defense of enemies - like the injuns that would attack the white settlers.

[The One Running the Simulation]

How about squak? Would you believe Sqak Valley? You’d only have to change one letter on the signs. Oh wait is that squack? Ok, only change two.

[Mr. Jeeves]

What is the origin of the word Squaw?

Rumor spread a while back that it actually meant "vagina" and was a derogatory term for Native American women. I haven't seen any conclusive proof of this, but the university Left immediately took it as gospel.

[NohSpinZone]

It’s in the eye of the beholder according to this article.

https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-word-squaw-offensive-or-not

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They never get around to the part where Native American men treated women as less valuable than horses. If he thought she was cheating on him, he would bite off the tip of her nose.

[The Noble Red Man](http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/HNS/Indians/redman.html), a great, one-page read by Mark Twain.

[Cold Heart]

They should have changed the name to Northern Pike Minnow