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Committee recommends new name for waterway | Port Townsend Leader

The Washington State Committee on Geographic Names has approved a new name for the passage between Marrowstone Island and Indian Island.

The waterway will be called Passage Through, the … ....

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WA State to Change 'Deraugatory' Names of Some Natural Landmarks.

Based upon a ruling from the US Department of Interior last spring, some 600 landmarks nationally are being renamed to remove the word squaw, which is claimed to be defaming to Native Tribes ....

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WA State to Change 'Deraugatory' Names of Some Natural Landmarks.

Based upon a ruling from the US Department of Interior last spring, some 600 landmarks nationally are being renamed to remove the word squaw, which is claimed to be defaming to Native Tribes ....

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Approval granted for renaming Mason County sites for Black pioneers

Rodney White and Nathaniel Sargent, Black men who farmed and ranched in Mason County in the late 1800s, will be recognized ....

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State formally adopts nine tribal proposals to replace derogatory place names | The Journal of the San Juan Islands

Submitted by Washington State Department of Natural Resources. ....

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