Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word 'squaw' from federal lands

Reported By: npr.org
November 19, 2021 06:29:09 PM

'Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands,' Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said as she formally declared 'squaw' to be a derogatory term.

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