When you reference local rivers or say you're from Ohio, you're speaking parts of Indigenous history, even if you don't ...

While traveling through Michigan this summer, you may notice locations with names that sound more like they belong in France, rather than an American state. The area that became present-day Michigan ...

President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, launching a November tradition. It was also ...

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t valued ...

Imagine scaling a peak so intimidating that it was called El Capitan, a name ringing of conquest, conferred by the Mariposa Battalion, an Indian-killing militia, in the mid-1800s. Imagine the rush of ...

GREEN BAY - U.S. Department of the Interior officials are working with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to change the names of 28 places in Wisconsin that have been deemed derogatory ...

Located about an hour southwest of Dallas, Squaw Valley Golf Course features nearly five hundred acres of undulating greenery lined by century-old oak trees and a creek that meanders through the ...

For years, Native American residents in Fresno County have campaigned to remove the word “squaw” from the name of an unincorporated town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The word, many Native ...

One offensive moniker at a time, U.S. maps are getting scrubbed of a racist past. Some hope the Interior Department can speed up the process. One offensive moniker at a time, U.S. maps are getting ...