❗️NEW❗️ on SAPIENS: 'Indigenous communities around the world are stewards of 80 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity across numerous ecosystems. When Indigenous communities are the deciding force behind stewardship practices, the land flourishes'
,” a deeply offensive term historically used to describe Native American women. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ordered the removal of the slur from all administrative and geographical place names and established a committee to identify and eliminate other offensive language from public places.
Place names are important to understanding the history of an area. However, they can also be an expression of power and oppression. The perpetuation of derogatory place names and harmful stereotypes is endemic of the settler colonialism ideology. It’s a critical issue that Indigenous communities around the world struggle with every day.
While the DOI’s recent order is important, I believe policymakers, voters, and anyone who wants to be an ally to Indigenous people must move beyond its mandate. The majority of the replacement names for the sites are not Indigenous names, and many still reflect their settler colonialist history—as do the names of countless places in the U.S. and around the world.
Together, these actions can help heal relationships between cultures and between people and the land—a change that is critical to land management and larger issues such as the climate crisis.Along the Arizona National Scenic Trail in the Santa Rita Mountains, athat teaches the public about a name older than the one given to the mountains by Spanish settlers. The kiosk describes the relationship between the Tohono O’odham and Ce:wi Duag, or “Long Mountain,” their name for the Santa Ritas.
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