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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gino Spocchia

650 locations in US get new names to erase racist slurs

Copyright - 2019 The Denver Post, MediaNews Group.

Creeks, towns and mountain passes are among the 650 places across the United States that have removed “Squaw”, a derogatory term for Native American woman, from their names.

On Thursday, the US government said all 650 place names had been approved by the Board on Geographic Names (BGN), paving the way for hundreds of geographical features and communities to remove the word.

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