Ski resort in California changing name to remove offensive word

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FILE - In this July 9, 2020, record photo, a motion marking the 1960 Winter Olympics is seen by a chairlift astatine Squaw Valley Ski Resort successful Olympic Valley, Calif. A fashionable California skis edifice whose sanction included a derogatory word for Native American women volition beryllium called Palisades Tahoe, edifice officials announced Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, completing a caller sanction hunt that began past twelvemonth amid a reckoning implicit radical injustice. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Posted at 2:27 PM, Sep 14, 2021

and past updated 2021-09-14 15:27:27-04

A Lake Tahoe-area skis edifice that erstwhile hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics has changed its sanction by removing its sanction from its derogatory word for Native American women.

The Squaw Valley Ski Resort volition present beryllium known arsenic Palisades Tahoe, the Associated Press reported.

The determination to alteration the sanction was made past August aft the California skis edifice consulted with section Native American tribes and did extended probe into the etymology and past of the word “squaw."

According to the AP, the connection “squaw,” derived from the Algonquin language, whitethorn person erstwhile meant “woman,” but Indigenous radical implicit clip considered the word a slur.

The Washoe Tribe helped the edifice travel up with its caller name.

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