As if being crass and vulgar weren’t bad enough, the Rocky Mountain peak known as “Squaw’s T–” also has a long and racist history dating back decades. Located near the summit of Mount Charles Stewart in the Alberta, Canada side of the Rocky Mountains, the range has now officially been given a traditional name honoring its Indigenous history.
Sarah Rieger of Canada’s CBC News reported that “the formation, visible from the mountain town of Canmore, will now be known by its original Stoney Nakoda name, Anû Kathâ Îpa, or Bald Eagle Peak.”
It was previously known by its racist and sexist nickname since the 1920s. According to Rieger, “Chief Aaron Young of Chiniki First Nation said his daughter voiced anger at the mountain’s ‘shameful and derogatory’ name for years.”
