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The U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names approved the renaming of three geographic features that had been named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis....Two of the features were given traditional Salish names, the third was named in honor of a Salish chief.The board renamed Jeff Davis Gulch just outside Helena in Lewis and Clark County to In-qu-qu-leet Gulch, a rough phonetic rendering of the Salish word that means "Place of Lodgepole Pine." Jeff Davis Creek in Beaverhead County has been renamed Doyavinai Baa O’ogwaide which means “water flowing from the mountain creek."Jeff Davis Peak in Broadwater County will now be called Three Eagles Peak. According to the Char Kooosta News, Three Eagles is named after a Salish chief from the late 1700s.
If renaming one kindergarten bearing Anne Frank's name shows "the threat to Jews today", then what does renaming hundreds of schools, buildings, and streets bearing White people's names suggest about the threat posed to them in their own homelands?
At least 16 places in Maine have names that include racial or ethnic slurs, although by law many were supposed to be eradicated decades ago...In 1977, Maine’s first Black state legislator Gerald Talbot sponsored a bill that prohibited the use of the n-word in the names of places, and in 2000, Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative Donald Soctomah got a bill passed eradicating from place names the sq-slur, a racist term for a Native American woman.However, Talbot’s daughter, House Speaker Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), discovered in 2020 that her father’s bill had not been effectively enforced, nor had Soctomah’s measure. Several islands and other sites still illegally had names that bore slurs against Black people and Native American women. Talbot Ross was behind a 2022 law intended to rectify noncompliance, tasking the Permanent Commission to create a council to identify remaining offensive place names. While Maine has been ahead of the curve in outlawing slurs from place names, the continued existence of offensive names in the state show oversight is still lacking....“When my father put in his landmark bill, he made a speech on the House floor that asked the state legislature if it was right for his kids to be raised in a state in which they could look at the names of mountains and rivers and streams that actually use the derogatory N-word,”...The Place Justice Advisory Council found 163 places in Maine named after Indigenous people. “In these cases, which might at first appear to honor these individuals, what we have to ask is ‘Who did the naming?’” questioned Meadow Dibble, a project lead on the research. “Often what is being celebrated is people’s deaths, rather than honoring them.”
A private school has pledged to remove the names of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake from its buildings in an “inclusivity” drive.Parents at Exeter School in Devon were told that the Elizabethan naval heroes no longer “represent the values and inclusive nature” of the school....Raleigh was a colonialist who failed to establish a British settlement in North Carolina because of hostile relations with Native Americans....Drake took part in voyages with his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, which saw the capture of black African slaves.
When the Bridge in MD is Rebuilt, Rename it Because Francis Scott Key Was a Slave Owner...Yep, Key had that colonial fever. He bought his first slave in 1800 or 1801. Even at that long-ago date, slavery had ceased being an unquestioned aspect of American life.There were people who questioned its morality, abhorred its horrors. Key bought a few more Black people during his life and had seven or eight when he died in 1843....“Are you willing, gentlemen, to abandon your country, to permit it to be taken from you, and occupied by the abolitionist, according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with the negro? Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist, who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief?”Let me say that in 2024 words:“White men, ya’ll sure you want to have your country taken from you and occupied by N-lovers, who might well want you and your women to get with them Ns? Or, are there laws in the country to stop them crazy N-lovers from unleashing those Ns on you and yours?”That Key’s argument wasn’t successful doesn’t free him from the shackle of having made it. And, of course, there are those Black people he bought and owned.So, when the new bridge spans the Patapsco, name it something other than the Key Bridge.Lots of Americans — hell, lots of Marylanders — are far more worthy of the honor. Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass immediately come to mind.Hell, we don’t even have to go back that far. What about Thurgood Marshall? Or the late congressman, Elijah Cummings?
The caucus is now calling on Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland General Assembly to rename the bridge after the late U.S. Rep. Parren J. Mitchell, the first African American from Maryland elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.The caucus is also asking that the Senator Frederick Malkus Memorial Bridge, a beam bridge over the Choptank River in Dorchester County, be renamed for the late Gloria Richardson, a Civil Rights pioneer and leader in Maryland. The late Gov. Harry R. Hughes opposed naming the bridge for Malkus, who was resistant to desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the group.
The effect of the vote will be that all plants, fungi and algae names that contain the word caffra, which originates in insults made against Black people, will be replaced by the word affra to denote their African origins.
The site named after U.S. Sen. Thomas Clingman in 1859. He was a renowned explorer and the first person to accurately measure the peak’s elevation. He later served as a general in the Confederate War.And since Clingman was a white guy and he fought in the Confederate War – well – you know the rest of the story.The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted in favor of changing the name to Kuwohi – a Cherokee Indian word meaning “mulberry place.”“This significant moment honors our ancestors and strengthens our connection to this sacred land,” said Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Chief Michell Hicks in a written statement.
Berwick Springs Lake, southeast of Melbourne, has been renamed Guru Nanak Lake after Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of the Sikh faith.
“I’m sorry but what an absolute joke,” one woman wrote on Facebook.Another local slammed it as “outrageous”. “Where was the community consultation?” they said.One wrote, “No consultation. This must be reversed immediately. We have lived in the Berwick Springs estate for 25 years. How can you change the name without the residents being notified?”One local said it was “so wrong”. “I’ll be fighting for it to be reverted back,” he wrote. “This has no relevance whatsoever and is creating further division. Watch this space, the residents are furious. Appalling.”
One noted, “Guru Nanak wasn’t exactly a local
It was named by an early leaseholder, Robert Gardiner, after his birthplace, Berwick-on-Tweed in Northumberland.[3]
"tel aviv" does not exist. it is a fiction manufactured for and by the settlers, who continue to find themselves locked inside yaffa despite their horrifying erasure of it late 1940s onwards. yaffa is older than "tel aviv," and these flames devouring these settlerscapes today5:18 PM · Nov 18, 2024·329.3K Views
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