Nüümü Hu Hupi

Lake in the state of California, United States

37°28′36.78″N 118°55′22.44″W / 37.4768833°N 118.9229000°W / 37.4768833; -118.9229000^[1]Basin countriesUnited StatesSurface elevation10,315 ft (3,144 m)^[1]

Nüümü Hu Hupi (formerly Squaw Lake) is a small lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, near the John Muir Trail in John Muir Wilderness. It is located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west-northwest of Mount Izaak Walton and 5 miles (8.0 km) north-northeast of Lake Thomas A Edison. at an altitude of 10,315 feet (3,144 m).^[1] The outflow of Nüümü Hu Hupi becomes Fish Creek, which eventually joins the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River. The name was controversial because squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for indigenous North American women.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The name was changed by the United States Board of Geographic Names on September 8, 2022.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Nüümü Hu Hupi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. January 19, 1981. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
^ National Museum of the American Indian (2007). Do All Indians Live in Tipis?. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-115301-3.
^ Schulman, Susan (16 Jan 2015). "Squaw Island to be renamed 'Deyowenoguhdoh'". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 14 April 2019. The proposed name change comes at the request of Native Americans, who say the word "squaw" is a racist, sexist term
^ Arlene B. Hirschfelder; Paulette Fairbanks Molin (2012). The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists. Scarecrow. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8108-7709-2.
^ King, C. Richard, "De/Scribing Squ*w: Indigenous Women and Imperial Idioms in the United States" in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v27 n2 p1-16 2003. Accessed Oct. 9, 2015