09-10-2017 17:00 via deseretnews.com

Provo explores renaming Squaw Peak but hasn't agreed on new moniker

PROVO — Chauma Jansen didn’t know the name of the mountain peak looming over BYU until she walked on campus. And every time someone said, “I went hiking at Squaw Peak this weekend,” she cringed.As a Sioux, Assiniboine and Navajo woman raised in Kamas, Jansen didn't hear the name of a popular hiking destination. Instead, she recalled the stories of Native American women’s pain and murder at the hands of white settlers.“It just brings up a lot of those feelings
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