The West's early white settlers had a way of naming geographical sites, and it's not a way that ages well with time.
Various authorities in charge of place names have spent decades scrubbing derogatory terms for Black people and Native women from the landscape. And the efforts took a major step forward recently, when the federal Interior Department completed the removal of the term for Native women (call it the S word) from sites under its control.
The job is not done elsewhere in the West, and we explore the situation in this month's Underground History, our history-and-archaeology excursion with Chelsea Rose from the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology.
Chelsea returns to discuss the derogatory place names, and their long persistence, with Kimberly Moreland from Oregon Black Pioneers.