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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Man, they dug deep for this one

Mount Doane, a mountain within Yellowstone National Park, has a new name as part of the Department of Interior’s process to remove derogatory terms from the names of federal lands. 

In a November order, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, in addition to declaring “squaw” a derogatory term, kickstarted the process to review and replace derogatory names of the nation’s geographic features.

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Pretty soon they'll just label mountains by their elevations, military style. Mount Rainer in Washington will be known as  Hill 14410 from then on.