March 7, 2009
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A decade-long project to remove the derogatory word "squaw" from the names of 76 streams, buttes and mountains across Montana has been completed.
Most of the name changes are official, although a few are winding their way through the process.
More than 150 people gathered Thursday in the Capitol rotunda for the "Old Places, New Names" ceremony.
"We celebrate 76 old places and 76 new names," Jennifer Perez Cole, the governor's Indian affairs coordinator, said at Thursday's observance.
Some examples: Stands Alone Woman Peak, a rock formation in Glacier National Park, has supplanted Old Squaw. Storm Castle Creek now flows through forested land in Gallatin County instead of Squaw Creek.
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