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State geographic naming board begins process of renaming Mount Evans
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A panel tasked with finding replacement names for geographic landmarks with names considered offensive began its process for reviewing suggested names for renaming Mount Evans. The move to find a new title for the Clear Creek County mountain named for Colorado Territorial Gov. John Evans comes two years after Colorado’s Geographic Naming Advisory Board board was reconvened…
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Ignored for decades, Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights
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MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah • Navajo Nation residents in pickup trucks rumbled along dusty dirt roads in the ethereal painted desert of Monument Valley in August to a well where they fill up water tanks, sometimes multiple times a day. The well spigot in the dirt parking lot next to a shuttered post office in Goulding, Utah, is…
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5 Colorado Native American boarding schools linked to Department of Interior report
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A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools around the U.S. that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 500 student deaths at the institutions so far, but officials say that figure could grow exponentially as research continues. The Interior Department report released Wednesday expands…
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U.S. Geological Survey task force releases replacements for ‘squaw’-named features
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A task force commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to come up with replacements for geographic features with the word “squaw” in their names has released its proposed list. Colorado has 28 features, including four that cross state boundaries with Oklahoma and Utah, with “squaw” in the name. Haaland declared the word “squaw” derogatory in…
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Colorado’s naming board rejects Union Reservoir change
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The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday recommended the governor reject a proposal submitted by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, backed by the Union Reservoir Company and City of Longmont, to change the name of Calkins Lake to Union Reservoir. Union Reservoir has been the name commonly attributed to Calkins Lake for at…
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Secretary of the Interior orders "Squaw" name removed from federal lands
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Friday ordered the word “squaw” removed from all federal lands. Haaland also ordered the creation of an advisory committee that will assist an existing federal board with development and review of name-changing proposals that affect derogatory names. Haaland’s announcement comes just weeks after a Colorado board recommended that Squaw…
