{"id":1470312,"date":"2022-05-10T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470312"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:59:43","slug":"researchers-identify-nearly-1000-racist-or-derogatory-names-in-americas-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-identify-nearly-1000-racist-or-derogatory-names-in-americas-national-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Identify Nearly 1,000 \u2018Racist\u2019 Or \u2018Derogatory\u2019 Names in America\u2019s National Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresearchers-identify-nearly-1000-racist-or-derogatory-names-in-americas-national-parks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-76.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A group of researchers has identified 960 places within 16 of the nation\u2019s national parks with names they deem as racist, promoting white supremacy, or presenting similar concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were revealed last month in an <a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/pan3.10302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> for People and Nature by several researchers including Grace Wu and Kurt Ingeman that included research from among 2,241 names in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of decolonizing our professional and recreational practices is to expose settler colonial biases and recognize the histories of colonized lands and the peoples who have stewarded these lands for millennia prior to colonization,\u201d the article\u2019s abstract noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll national parks examined have place names that tacitly endorse racist or, more specifically, anti-Indigenous ideologies, thus perpetuating settler colonialism and white supremacy at the system scale for future generations,\u201d the authors added.<\/p>\n<p>The study identified 254 names it claims \u201cmemoralizes\u201d colonialism. One example is Roys Peak in Texas\u2019 Big Bend National Park, claiming the name threatens to \u201cerase Indigenous knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another 214 names were included under the category of cultural appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>The list was divided into several categories including derogatory, erasure and dimensions of racism, and colonialism. The categories were used to help provide national parks options to potentially rename places.<\/p>\n<p>Natchee Barnd, an associate professor at Oregon State University, compared the recommended changes to sports teams like the NFL\u2019s Washington Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe change things all the time. You mentioned sports; we change the names of stadiums every couple of years. People have no problem figuring out the new name of the stadium based off who is paying the rights to have their name attached to it. So we can shift and adjust as we want,\u201d Barnd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kezi.com\/news\/osu-professor-helps-identify-harmful-names-at-national-parks\/article_8880f2de-bb8f-11ec-964c-df10fb25ace1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though seemingly surprising to many Americans, it\u2019s not the only recent call to rename public lands due to offensive names.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Scientific American published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/offensive-names-should-be-removed-from-public-lands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion piece<\/a> by Bonnie McGill entitled \u201cOffensive Names Should Be Removed from Public Lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGill\u2019s publication included clearer examples of recommended changes \u201csuch as Squaw Canyon and Squaw Flat in Canyonlands National Park and Squaw Creek in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.\u201d She noted the word \u201csquaw\u201d has been used as an insult to \u201cdemean Native American women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other names are more focused on traditional indigenous names that were later replaced by European settlers. Mt. McKinley in Alaska, for example, was named after an American president. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/obama-faces-backlash-over-renaming-of-mount-mckinley\/2939405.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renamed<\/a> Mt. McKinley to Denali, acknowledging the traditional native name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we are honored to be able to officially recognize the mountain as Denali,\u201d Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in a statement at the time. \u201cI\u2019d like to thank the President for working with us to achieve this significant change to show honor, respect, and gratitude to the Athabascan people of Alaska.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers has identified 960 places within 16 of the nation\u2019s national parks with names they deem as racist, promoting white supremacy, or presenting similar concerns.The findings were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1482352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}