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RENAME SQUAW VALLEY FRESNO COUNTY

12/11/2025 Nativegrl77

Fresno County Board of Supervisor District 5 County Supervisor Nathan Magsig

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What if I told you there was one common word sexual predators of Native American women used? What if I told you some individuals vehemently defend the term as a word of honor and respect? What if I told you an entire community was named after this word?

That word is “squaw”.

Although the word “squaw” is defined as a North American Indian woman or wife, it is clear that the term is now offensive due to its pejorative usage over time, despite the lack of awareness by Non-Native Americans.

The historical roots of the term “squaw” suggests it emphasizes sexual desires when the term was used; to mean female genitalia; and to denote a Native American woman who provides sexual satisfaction.

The term “squaw” in American literature shows that it describes a Native American woman who is a failed “princess”. While an “Indian Princess” was thought to be natural, wholesome, virtuous, honorable, and connote virginity; the “squaw” was considered to be ugly, debased, immoral, and a sexual convenience that lived a squalid life of servile toil and openly available to Non-Native men.

The word “squaw” epitomizes the racism and sexism Native American women face.

I am an enrolled member of the Dunlap Band of Mono Indian Tribe and self identify as also Choinumni, both tribally indigenous to the valley. Not only do the indigenous tribes to the valley remain Non-Federally recognized, its unconscionable that all of our mothers and daughters continue to be subjected to such blatant disrespect. Its 2021, not one more day!

Names are powerful, helping to form our identity; they are a significant contributor to one’s self esteem.

Sign and stand with us, amplifying our call to respect our community, all impacted grandmothers, mothers, daughters, future Native American female generations, and Mother Earth, to end the use of a pejorative, specific for Native American women, for geographic naming.

LINK TO PROPOSED RESOLUTION https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jc7jXtxnb088DNiwNGZgA_wrAf19sL9A/view?usp=sharing

Contact: (559) 581-2893 / renamesquawvalley@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Political-Organization/Rename-Squaw-Valley-Fresno-County-110785474082424/

LOCATION: “Squaw Valley” is a census-designated place located in Fresno County, California, United States of America (zip codes 93646 & 93675)

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1964 – Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA

12/11/2025 Nativegrl77

On December 11, 1964, in response to a reported shooting, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were dispatched to the Hacienda Motel, where they found musician Sam Cooke dead on the office floor, shot three times in the chest by the motel’s manager, Bertha Franklin. The …read more

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1869 – Wyoming grants Women the Right to Vote

12/10/2025 Nativegrl77

Motivated more by interest in free publicity than a commitment to gender equality, Wyoming territorial legislators pass a bill that is signed into law granting women the right to vote.

Western states led the nation in approving women’s suffrage, but some of them had rather unsavory motives. Though some men recognized the important role women played in frontier settlement, others voted for women’s suffrage only to bolster the strength of conservative voting blocks. In Wyoming, some men were also motivated by sheer loneliness–in 1869, the territory had over 6,000 adult males and only 1,000 females, and area men hoped women would be more likely to settle in the rugged and isolated country if they were granted the right to vote.

Some of the suffrage movement’s leaders did have more respectable reasons for supporting women’s right to vote. William Bright, a territorial legislator who was in his mid-forties, had a persuasive young wife who convinced him that denying women the vote was a gross injustice. The other major backer, Edward M. Lee, the territorial secretary who had championed the cause for years, argued that it was unfair for his mother to be denied a privilege granted to African-American males.

Ultimately, though, appeals to justice and equality did not pass the legislation–most Wyoming legislators supported Bright and Lee’s bill because they thought it would win the territory free national publicity and might attract more single marriageable women to the region. Territorial Governor John A. Campbell appreciated the publicity power of the policy and signed the bill into law, making Wyoming the first territory or state in the history of the nation to grant women this fundamental right of citizenship.

Source: history.com