In at least one place with the offending name — the unincorporated town of Squaw Valley near Kings Canyon National Park — discussions about what the name should be have already grown heated.
In a ceremony joined by Native American tribal leaders, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that will remove the word “squaw” from nearly 100 geographic features and place names across California.
In Fresno County, Squaw Lake and Squaw Leap — a cliff overlooking the San Joaquin Gorge where legend has it that 17 Native American women who had been chained together by solders leaped to their deaths — are among the five places that will also need new names. The new law could not have come soon enough for Native American activists whose ancestors lived in the hill country on the western flanks of the Sierra Nevada range for millennia.
The ski resort that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics is seen in 2020, when it was known as Squaw Valley. The resort’s name has been changed to Palisades Tahoe. “The local community was left out of the process,” he said. “I plan to present the results to the Board of Supervisors on Oct. 11. After that, we’ll decide how to proceed.”the Fresno Bee reportedNow that Newsom has signed AB 2022, residents of communities like Squaw Valley will have to decide what they should be called instead.
Some scholars suggest that “squaw” came from the Algonquin language, which was spoken by many tribes on the East Coast and originally meant “woman.”
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