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Native American association tells Indy's minor league baseball team to keep 'Indians' name
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoINDIANAPOLIS — The Native American Guardian's Association, which successfully fought for the Atlanta...
‘Native American’ or ‘Indigenous’? Journalism group rethinks name
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Native American Journalists Association is aiming to become more inclusive as its members vote...
US changes names of nearly 650 places with racist Native American women term
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe U.S. government has renamed nearly 650 geographical locations that bear a racist and...
Officials rename 28 places in Wisconsin that had names derogatory to Indigenous women. Here's where...
Green Bay Press-Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGREEN BAY - Federal officials on Thursday voted on the final names for more than two dozen places in...
16 Facts to Learn for Native American Heritage Month
Good Housekeeping via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere are over 9 million Native Americans and Native Alaskans living in the United States today. And with over 500 federally recognized tribes, there are...
'Potato' and 'Hogback' among new names for Kansas creeks renamed to remove derogatory term
The Topeka Capital-Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSix creeks or tributaries on federal land in Kansas, all of which bore names that included the word...
Anti-Native American Slur Officially Scrubbed from All Federal Place Names
Outside via Yahoo News· 2 years agoInterior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency, spearheaded the...
California banned a slur from geographic place names. Fresno County won't let go
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNative Americans won state backing to ban a term used to denigrate Native women from geographic...
Derogatory word cut from the name of NJ brook. Mayor says new moniker is 'stupid'
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNORTH HALEDON — Hundreds of geographic features across the country, including mountains, rivers and...
Interior Department removes anti-Native slur from usage in federal place names
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Interior Department announced Thursday that it has completed the removal of a slur for Native...