Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word 'squaw' from federal lands

NPR ^ | November 19, 2021 | Bill Chappell

[Twotone]

We have Squaw Butte looking over our little town. I thought it might be BLM land. I knew this would happen sooner or later. Interestingly, another nearby town has a Cowboy Hill.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Looks like Deb just found a new middle name.

[ryderann]

Squash sounds very similar to squaw. Should that be banned also...you know, like “niggardly” is now a forbidden word?

[albie]

Dictionary.com is doing their part!!

squaw
/skwô/
noun OFFENSIVE
a North American Indian woman or wife.

[Mathews]

What about Squaw Valley? That place might be privately owned though. Not sure. Big name though.

[Responsibility2nd]

So square is a derogatory term for woman. Well guess what? Broad is another derogatory term.

So every town in America must immediately find another name for Broadway or Broadview or any other street or place that has the word broad in it.

Broadly speaking, broad is a sexist term.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

A lot of squawking and squalling about harmless place names.

[Responsibility2nd]

I hate when auto correct takes a correctly pronounced word and then changes it. I guess auto correct got the message that squaw must not be used.

[northislander]

Wasting public money...

[Macoozie]

So. If you’re an Indian, what the heck are you supposed to call your wife?

“Queen of this damned Castle” whenever it comes up around these parts.

[Who is John Galt?]

If "Ms. Political Correctness" Deb Haaland was running her own business, and paying her employees herself, I doubt she would spend millions of dollars to make a bunch of pointless name changes, and reissue half of the USGS and BLM maps in circulation. But if you can set fire to giant stacks of the tax payers' money, why not?

\sarc

[jughandle]

And npr repeatedly uses this newly declared derogatory racist word in this article..

[DouglasKC]

No more Indian references in our society ever! Despite the government best efforts they refuse to die so we’ll erase them!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The new wester movie, Indian Lands, starring Deb Haaland as The Squawking Squaw.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The new wester movie, Indian Lands, starring Deb Haaland as The Squawking Squaw.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The new wester movie, Indian Lands, starring Deb Haaland as The Squawking Squaw.

[Carl Vehse]

The word squaw comes from the Massachuset Indian tribe (Algonquian language) word, squa, meaning "woman," first used in the English language in the 1630s to mean "American Indian woman."

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is being a pompous ass in deciding what English words are to be banned in the U.S.

[Twotone]

I’ll be sending this to our senators & congressmen. Yes, a gigantic waste of money. Time for Red states to kick the feds out & take back all the land they’ve held onto...UNconstitutionally.

[daler]

“Wasting public money...”

Au contraire.

I find it immensely comforting to know that our “leaders”, having solved nearly all of the minor inconveniences facing Americans, are now focusing on major issues, like this one, that Americans have been fretting about for decades./s