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EPISODE · Jan 17, 2025

On the California-Arizona border, BLM takes steps to remove a term offensive to Native Americans

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The Department of the Interior is changing many place-names on public lands to discontinue the use of terms that are considered derogatory to Native Americans. In Arizona's Yuma Field Office, this includes one lake on the Arizona-California border that was changed with the help of the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe. In this report, Heather Feeney speaks to Ray Castro, Yuma Field Manager about the reasons and process for changing the name. 

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