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State Changes Names of Areas Derogatory To Indigenous Women

State officials are working to rename features in the state's geography bearing a derogatory term that refers to Indigenous women.

East canyon ridgeUnited statesLittle white salmon riverColumbia riverSkamania countyBlue lakeKlickitat countyAalvic wahtumPataniks pushtyeLucille aalvicTimla wapyktTimla pushtyeCommittee on geographic namesUs department of theArmy corps of engineersWashington state committee on geographic names

State Changes Names of Areas Derogatory To Indigenous Women

State officials are working to rename features in the state's geography bearing a derogatory term that refers to Indigenous women.

East canyon ridgeUnited statesLittle white salmon riverColumbia riverSkamania countyBlue lakeKlickitat countyAalvic wahtumPataniks pushtyeLucille aalvicTimla wapyktTimla pushtyeCommittee on geographic namesUs department of theArmy corps of engineersWashington state committee on geographic names

State Changes Names of Areas Derogatory To Indigenous Women

State officials are working to rename features in the state's geography bearing a derogatory term that refers to Indigenous women.

East canyon ridgeUnited statesLittle white salmon riverColumbia riverSkamania countyBlue lakeKlickitat countyAalvic wahtumPataniks pushtyeLucille aalvicTimla wapyktTimla pushtyeCommittee on geographic namesUs department of theArmy corps of engineersWashington state committee on geographic names

18 Washington nature sites renamed to remove Indigenous slur after federal order

Several natural locations around Washington now go by new names, following an effort by the U.S. Department of the Interior to scrub Indigenous slurs from them.

United statesChelan countyJefferson countyPierce countyKittitas countyJoes creekStevens countyColumbia countySkamania countyOkanogan countyGarfield countyClark countyKlickitat countyClallam countyPend oreille countyLincoln county

Washington committee hears proposals to change derogatory names of geographic features

Washington's Indigenous tribes have proposed new names for several natural locations around the state with derogatory names.

Prusik passUnited statesColville reservationKing countySan juan countyColumbia riverReads bayFrosty creekJefferson countyTucannon springCondon springEast canyon ridgeLittle white salmon riverStevens countyTucannon riverWashington cascades

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