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Mitchella repens (commonly partridge berry or squaw vine) is the best known plant in the genus Mitchella. It is a creeping prostrate herbaceous woody shrub occurring in North America belonging to the madder family ( Rubiaceae ).
The more regionally common name of Squawteat Peak is a reference to the ethnic and sexual slur squaw, and is now generally avoided in academic circles. Writing for The Austin Chronicle , Gerald McLeod nicknamed the mountain "Perky Breast Mountain" to avoid using the colloquial local name.
Piestewa Peak in Phoenix, Arizona, replaced the name Squaw Peak in 2003; the new name honors Iraq War casualty PFC Lori Piestewa , the first Native American woman to die in combat for the U.S. Members of Coeur d'Alene Tribe in Idaho called for the removal of the word squaw from the names of 13 locations in that state in October 2006. Many ...
The list of new names can be found on the U.S. Geological Survey website with a map of locations. Where ‘Squaw’ has been removed from place names Source: U.S. Department of the Interior.
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The town of 3,600 residents is a 300-mile drive from the historic ski resort near Lake Tahoe that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics and was once known as Squaw Valley.
Dwell Community Church, formerly Xenos Christian Fellowship, is a non-traditional, non-denominational, institutional cell church system. [2] Unlike traditional churches, Dwell is centered on home church activities rather than traditional Sunday morning services.
The group played into the late 1980s but had dissolved by 1990. In 1995, they reunited after releasing a greatest hits album, and continued performing locally in Ohio into the 2000s. Two full-length releases followed the reunion, in 1998 and 2002. On August 18, 2009, they opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd at The LC in Columbus, Ohio.