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Warming Trends: Banning a Racist Slur on Public Lands, and Calculating Climate’s Impact on Yellowstone, Birds and Banks - Earth News Report
CULTURE A Guide to Removing Offensive Names from Geographic Features In November 2021, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed an order declaring the word “squaw” a derogatory term, mandating that any geographical feature on public lands with a name containing the word be renamed. The word, which is considered a slur against Native American women, was