I was raised beside 'Squaw Peak' - it's time to change America's offensive place names

Settlers may not like to see Indigenous names returned to the landscape around us. But we were here first Near the summit of a peak west of Missoula, Montana, the hiking trail forks as it clears the forest of pine and fir trees. A wooden sign indicates the way to a steep climb over tumbled rocks to reach the peak, Ch-paa-qn. This is a Salish word that means "shining mountain," or "gray, treeless mountain top". Except that some rube has used a knife to all but scratch the Indigenous word out and ...