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 ...

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 ...

People with an interest in geography or Pacific Northwest history are coming up with replacement names for dozens of places around the region that currently have a name considered derogatory. The U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 30 places in 15 California counties will be getting new names by Jan. 1, 2025, replacing offensive slurs that still mar sites around the state, the California Natural Resources Agency said Friday ...

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 ...