Colorado board OKs removing word 'squaw' from several sites

A Colorado advisory board has begun the process of removing the word 'squaw' from 28 of the state's peaks, valleys, passes and creeks.

DENVER — A Colorado advisory board has begun the process of removing the word"squaw" from 28 of the state's peaks, valleys, passes and creeks.

The word"squaw," derived from the Algonquin language, may once have simply meant"woman." But over generations, it morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women.

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