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Biden Dept. of Interior releases new names of federal lands deemed ‘racist and derogatory’
New York Post ^

Posted on 09/08/2022 6:45:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Biden administration’s Department of the Interior on Thursday announced the replacement names for nearly 650 geographical features that had names deemed “racist and derogatory.”

The Board on Geographic Names voted on the final names to replace the names of landmarks on federal lands that feature the term “squaw,” the department said in a news release.

The removal of the term, which the department says has “historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” is part of an ongoing effort to review and replace derogatory names from federal usage.

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1 posted on 09/08/2022 6:45:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Screws up all the old maps, deeds, old legal records and history books...absolutely stupid.


2 posted on 09/08/2022 6:48:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Stupid....While Squaw was used in a derogatory fashion at times...in reality it was simply a female Indian.


3 posted on 09/08/2022 6:51:35 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Historically, there is no word/name more racist than “democrat”.

Southern democrat. KKK democrat. Klan Bake NYC democrat. Jim Crow democrat. Poll tax democrat. Margaret Sanger democrat.


4 posted on 09/08/2022 6:53:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: nickcarraway

We need to change the names of most of our states - Penn was a racist colonialist, Maryland named for another white racist, Massachusetts is cultural appropriation, etc. etc.


5 posted on 09/08/2022 6:56:11 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Sacajaweau

These malcontents are acting like Muslims.

Move in, destroy all statues, written history, churches, names, culture.

But I guess
Muslims
and National Socialists ( nazis)
go hand in hand from way back.

They are beserkers.


6 posted on 09/08/2022 7:02:54 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: nickcarraway

I thought at first this was Babylon Bee!!!


7 posted on 09/08/2022 7:05:17 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: nickcarraway

Whitewash, or rather colorwash, history.


8 posted on 09/08/2022 7:09:02 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Sacajaweau

Not just stupid...evil


9 posted on 09/08/2022 7:10:11 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Like when a housing development absorbs land with historic road and street names that have historical meaning and changes them all to Elm Street . I hate it.


10 posted on 09/08/2022 7:47:35 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe k)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s nice that the government has everything else squared away so it can spend time and effort on this. And, as I saw in a another thread, its advancing the LGBTQetc agenda as a major plank of foreign policy. The world is full of peace and order outside of that issue.


11 posted on 09/08/2022 7:48:52 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: cuz1961

That is how Communists treat tings when they take power. It is the assertion that all history begins with the Communists/Moslems/etc.


12 posted on 09/08/2022 7:49:12 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe l)
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To: nickcarraway

It seems like a purge of non-whiteness. I get it, I really do.


13 posted on 09/08/2022 8:18:59 PM PDT by healy61
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Lake Michigan is Gitchigume I don’t care what anybody says....


14 posted on 09/08/2022 8:32:24 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: nickcarraway

Some weeks back, Biden’s Interior Secretary was being investigated for completing her financial disclosure form, saying she had no assets.


15 posted on 09/08/2022 8:40:00 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: nickcarraway

They have time for this but won’t lift a finger for border security. Anything to divide Americans. Agitprop.


16 posted on 09/08/2022 9:33:13 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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The new President in 2024 is going to face a hell of a task in purging the various administrative bureaus of all of the “woke” idiots that have taken them over and push this BS onto the Country!


17 posted on 09/08/2022 11:08:38 PM PDT by octex
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder how much these retards where paid to come up with this list. Some Federal morons are hired although there isn’t anything productive for them to so. This name search is so childish.


18 posted on 09/08/2022 11:17:54 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: nickcarraway

Couldn’t navigate Yakima Firing Center without Squaw Tit


19 posted on 09/09/2022 1:10:01 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: nickcarraway
Squaw Valley is no longer.


20 posted on 09/09/2022 1:58:56 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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