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“Every garment - a tie, a dress, a pair of socks or shoes - is a communication device of varying power and clarity, and we choose how to use those tools to sway those looking at us. Vanessa Friedman, a writer for the New York Times, wrote a defense in 2017 about why writing about the wardrobe of powerful people is of interest. The letter was also signed by Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat senator from New Hampshire and Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona who has some of the more flashy, form-fitting, and colorful attire in Congress. 20, in which they criticized the newspaper for focusing too much on the wardrobe of Sen. Lisa Murkowski and two other women senators had a letter published in the New York Times on Nov. Squaw Valley Ski Resort officially changed its name to Tahoe Palisades in September. Some states have passed legislation prohibiting the use of the word “squaw” in place names, including Montana, Oregon, Maine, and Minnesota. It will establish a process to solicit and assist with proposals to the secretary to change derogatory names, and will include engagement with tribes, state and local governments, and the public. The Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names will include representation from Indian tribes, tribal and Native Hawaiian organizations, civil rights, anthropology, and history experts, and members of the general public.
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Secretarial Order 3405 creates a Federal Advisory Committee to broadly solicit, review, and recommend changes to other derogatory geographic and federal land unit names. The order requires that the task force engage in Tribal consultation and consider public feedback on all proposed name changes. The newly created Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force will include representatives from federal land management agencies, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion experts from the federal agency. “The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” the news release said. Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage - not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression,” Haaland said in a news release. “Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands. She appointed a task force to find replacement names. There are more than 650 place names that use the word, such as Squaw Mountain, Squaw Valley, and Squaw Creek. Haaland, as an agent of the federal government, declared “squaw” to be a derogatory term that was inappropriate to use to name geological features. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Friday ordered a ban of the word “squaw,” which is an Algonquin word that simply means “woman,” from all federal lands. Women in power asserted themselves this week on issues of words and wardrobe.