Roman Rain Tree, a member of the Dunlap Band of Mono Indians and leader of the coalition Rename S-Valley Fresno County, led virtual town halls and gathered more than 35,000 signatures favoring a new ...

FOX CHAPEL, Pa. (KDKA) -- A petition in Fox Chapel is calling for the removal of the word "squaw" from parks and streets. Objections were raised about the word as a derogatory term for Native American ...

As white settlers made their way west, so did the word “squaw.” Eventually, it took root in nearly 100 California place names, possibly more — Squaw Creek, Squaw Peak, Squaw Hollow, Squaw Flat. For a ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Assembly Bill 2022 was one of several bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to support California Native communities. AB 2022 would ban the word "squaw" from being used ...

The federal government has removed a word long used to slur Native American women from use on federal lands including 80 sites in California, U.S. Department of Interior officials announced Thursday.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The federal government has come up with new names for hundreds of geographic features that previously had 'squaw' in their names. The US Department of Interior is removing the ...

DENVER (CBS4) - The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is asking for public input on more than two dozen Colorado features that are currently named "squaw," a term that was declared derogatory ...

After over two years of debate, the Fresno County community of Squaw Valley will be renamed. The new name for the census-designated place is Yokuts Valley. The decision was made Thursday morning in a ...

The legendary California ski resort formerly known as Squaw Valley officially has a new name as of this week: Palisades Tahoe. The name comes from a storied zone on the mountain, a steep, ...