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Change is coming for 660 U.S. place names that include a slur for Native women

“It is an opportunity to provide a more honest accounting of America’s past and a gesture toward healing historic wounds,” said the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.

(Ash Ponders | The New York Times) Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, which was called Squaw Peak until a state panel in Arizona renamed it in 2003, is photographed on March 3, 2022. The Interior Department is looking to rename 660 federal sites that use the offensive term "squaw."

(Ash Ponders | The New York Times) Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, which was called Squaw Peak until a state panel in Arizona renamed it in 2003, is photographed on March 3, 2022. The Interior Department is looking to rename 660 federal sites that use the offensive term "squaw."

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By Neil Vigdor and Christine Hauser | The New York Times