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U.S. removing Indigenous racial slur from place names, but word remains in some Canadian locations

U.S. removing Indigenous racial slur from place names, but word remains in some Canadian locations

CBC
Saturday, February 26, 2022 10:13 AM GMT

WARNING: This article discusses an offensive slur. CBC has chosen to use it once for context and censor it in later references.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is looking to replace the names of more than 660 geographical locations across the country that use the derogatory word "squaw" in their titles.

This week, the department announced potential replacement names for the locations that use the term that it officially deemed derogatory late last year.

A federal task force in the United States was created to help rename all of the locations using the offensive word. It has also replaced it in its communications with "Sq—." 

In Canada, there are 20 official names with the word still in use in a government database of geographical names, seven of which are in New Brunswick. 

Kyana Kingbird, a Mi'kmaw and Ojibway woman from Esgenoôpetitj (Burnt Church) First Nation in New Brunswick, said she was surprised to hear that her home province has the highest amount of the term still being used.  

Although she has not encountered any of the official place names, Kingbird said she knows the harm that hearing or seeing the word can do, and grew up knowing it as a racial term. 

The first time she heard the word directed at her, she was in the drive-thru at a local fast food restaurant a few years ago when a group of men in a car behind her were yelling "sq--w" and "did you pick up your welfare cheque?" 

Kingbird said that incident stayed with her over the years, and she feels it is necessary for governments to act as a positive example and stop the use of derogatory terms. 

"One thing I think is really essential when it comes to racially motivated words like this is having authority tell people it's not OK to do this," she said. "Society doesn't change to reflect laws. Laws change to reflect society." 

Kingbird said she hopes she'll see more action on behalf of leaders in charge. 

"I think it's important that ... governments and authority make it clear that it's not acceptable to use these words," she says. "If they're not saying it's not acceptable to use them, then people can believe that it is acceptable." 

Last year in Yukon, campaigning political leaders supported the removal of four uses of "sq--w" in official place names in the region. Elders in Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon have reclaimed one such place name on their lands, but all four are still listed on the government database.

Traditional Wolastoq Grand Chief Ron Tremblay in New Brunswick said the lack of progress in Canada compared to the United States in efforts to change offensive and colonial names is problematic.

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