National place name changes and citizen voting
I briefly saw an notice citizens can vote for preferred suggestions for new place names. Can anyone help find the link? Thanks!
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Change is coming for 660 U.S. place names that include a slur for Native women
“It is an opportunity to provide a more honest accounting of America’s past and a gesture toward healing historic wounds,” said the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.
Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, which was called Squaw Peak until a state panel in Arizona renamed it in 2003, is photographed on March 3, 2022. The Interior Department is looking to rename 660 federal sites that use the offensive term "squaw."
The map dots, resembling a scattergram of America, point to snow-covered pinnacles, remote islands and places in between.
Each of the 660 points, shown on maps of federal lands and waterways, includes the word “squaw” in its name, a term Native Americans regard as a racist and misogynistic slur.
Now the Interior Department, led by Deb Haaland, the first Native American Cabinet secretary, is taking steps to strip the word from mountains, rivers, lakes and other geographic sites and has solicited input from tribes on new names for the landmarks.
A task force created by the department will submit the new names for final approval from the Board on Geographic Names, the federal body that standardizes U.S. place names. The National Park Service was ordered to take similar steps.
“Words matter, particularly in our work to make our nation’s public lands and waters accessible and welcoming to people of all backgrounds,” Haaland said in a statement. “Consideration of these replacements is a big step forward in our efforts to remove derogatory terms whose ….
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/squaw-new-name.html/
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You gotta love when the internet is asked for their input 