DENVER (CBS4) - The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is asking for public input on more than two dozen Colorado features that are currently named "squaw," a term that was declared derogatory ...

Sep. 18—When Brook Colley's father wrote a 1994 book about Oregon swimming holes, he refused to use the name Squaw Lake for a picturesque lake surrounded by forested mountains in the Applegate Valley.

DENVER (AP) — A federal panel has approved renaming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 19th century, part ...

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday formally declared "squaw" a derogatory term and said she is taking steps to remove it from federal government use and to replace other ...

LAS CRUCES – The Las Cruces City Council updated the city's 40-year-old street naming guide, empowering city staff to initiate the change of a Las Cruces' Foothills road bearing a racist slur.

The Department of Interior has recommended new names for more than 660 geographical sites that it said have derogatory Indigenous slurs in their names, including 28 sites in Colorado. Secretary of ...

The U.S Board on Geographic Names made it official Thursday with a unanimous vote: Squaw Mountain in Clear Creek County is now Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain. The vote ends a four-year effort to remove the old ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The federal government said last week that new names are in place for nearly 650 sites in the U.S. that formerly bore the name “Squaw.” Those include the former Squaw Peak on ...

After over two years of debate, the Fresno County community of Squaw Valley will be renamed. The new name for the census-designated place is Yokuts Valley. The decision was made Thursday morning in a ...