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Mon, September 13, 2021, 5:59 PM

SAN FRANCISCO — A popular California ski resort whose name included a derogatory term for Native American women changed its name to Palisades Tahoe on Monday. Resort officials had begun searching for a new name last year amid a reckoning over racial injustice.

The renaming of Squaw Valley Ski Resort is one of many efforts nationally to address a history of colonialism and oppression against Native Americans and other people of color that includes removing statues of Christopher Columbus.

The word “squaw,” derived from the Algonquin language, may have once simply meant “woman,” but over generations, the word morphed into a misogynist and racist term to disparage Indigenous women, according to experts.

“It was the right thing to do and I think it’s going to make a difference. I think we’re going to be seen as a more welcoming, inclusive resort and community,” said Palisades Tahoe President and COO Dee Byrne.

Byrne said that after studying the issue for the past year the resort’s research concluded the word is very offensive “not just to Indigenous women but to all women.”

The resort is in Olympic Valley, which was known as Squaw Valley until it hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics. Tribes in the region had been asking the resort for a name change for decades.

The valley, in the Lake Tahoe area about 200 miles northeast of San Francisco, is within the ancestral homeland of the Washoe people, Darrel Cruz of the Washoe Tribe Historic Preservation Office said in a statement. He said the word is a “constant reminder of those time periods when it was not good for us. It’s a term that was inflicted upon us by somebody else and we don’t agree with it.”

Washoe Tribal Chairman Serrell Smokey said the tribal council expressed “its great appreciation for this positive step forward.”

“There’s been a lot of progress but there’s still a lot of work to be done,” he added. “We need to continue to capitalize on that progress and continue to push forward.”

Smokey said the tribe plans to work with the resort as well as Placer County officials to rename other public places and features in the Olympic Valley that continue to use the derogatory word.

Company officials said the resort’s new logo honors the two legendary mountains that are part of it. And in a nod to the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, it features an eagle, a symbol of the spiritual world for Native Americans.

Beyond changing its name, the company said it is partnering with the Washoe Tribe to educate resort guests about tribal culture. This summer, the resort launched the Washoe Cultural Tour series, offering a monthly talk by Cruz. The resort will also install an exhibit on the Washoe way of life.

What a total crock!

Are they going to rename Crazy Woman's Creek?

Yes - Michelle Obama Triumphant Woman of Color Creek

Isn't Michelle Obama the man that birthed two daughters?

She/he was ahead of her time, she/he will be recognized as a Transgender Warrior in future times.

It can burn in the next wildfire.

There’s a mountain around here that used to be known as Squaw Peak. Now it’s Piestewa Peak. It’s just a name change. Same pile of dirt and rocks.

The name never cost them a dime in revenue, the new name is very likely too as many patrons will not welcome the change.

But, naturally, they'll lie about it & pretend that it's a positive change.

MM

Next up: Arrowhead Stadium Florida Seminoles, New England Patriots, Tennessee Volunteers, and the UMass Minutemen.

I still refer to them as “old squaws”… be a cold day in hell when you hear me talk about “long-tailed ducks”

And who's better off now?

The conscience of the injuns and the ever-restless Marxists who pretend to be their champions for Justice and The American Way.

Me gotta a bunch of old squaw valley memorabilia to sell now.. 🤪

Seriously, what do you have??

Being in CA, this ski resort didn't have a choice in not renaming their mountain. I'm not defending them though.

Tepco restaurant ware with the litte indian girls sking, clothing and ephemera booklets, brochues etc from the 1960's.

Packed away for a few decades waiting for this to happen. Marxists been trying to get that name changed since the 1980's.

Buddy use to own old ski lift chairs that were in use during the 1960 Winter Olympics. In some corporate office now if SF I believe.

Check your PM

Crazy, name change. Really.

Might as well change the name of "BloodyDick Montana.

And just like that, the world became a better place. (Note need for sarcasm icon.)

Yup, we had property in Central Oregon on a rimrock overlooking Squaw Creek... the local do-gooders decided it hurt some obscure native americans' feelers so they renamed it Whychus Creek and I have no idea what that means.... funny thing is the subdivision where our property was had been platted as Squaw Creek Canyon Estates and that isn't quite so easy to change on all those documents that have passed hands so the name remains on a big entry sign going into the subdivision....