South Dakota: South Dakota Board

South Dakota Board: The state issued a plea this month for public assistance in renaming five geographic features. The five are part of a total of 18 sites that include the word squaw or Negro in their names and have been designated by the legislature as needing renaming, according to The Star. It is hard for us to come up with a good name, said June Hansen, a member of the South Dakota Board of Geographic Names. Tops on the list for renaming are places known for decades as Negro Wool Ridge and Negro Gulch, landmarks that in their early history were known by a different n word, said Hansen and South Dakota is finding it difficult to change time-worn names of locations that are seen as offensive by African-Americans and native Americans, such as Negro and squaw creeks, canyons and mountain ridges. But some of the replacement names suggested by the South Dakota Board of Geographic Names have been rejected by an obscure federal body called the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.