Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term "squaw" from over 30 geographic features and place names on ...

The word "squaw" was declared derogatory by the Department of Interior in 2021. Since then, hundreds of geographic features ...

The California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names, which the California Natural Resources Agency oversees, scoured maps of California ... originated from the Algonquin language, which was ...

Once removed from geographic nomenclature statewide by January 1, 2025, maps, signs, and databases will be updated ... Many claim that it is derived from the term “young woman” in Algonquin, while ...

Having visited there as many as 25-30 times over the decades, we were intrigued and delighted to see this dual language welcome ... is from the Algonquin word “Mishigamaw,” meaning “big ...

Indigenous Communities throughout the country are reclaiming their languages, once repressed by European colonists and racist ...

The new Maps tools are powered by Google Gemini, the company’s large language model that can interpret and respond to text, as well as parse through and generate other media like images ...

The term is believed to have originated from the Native American Algonquin language, which was spoken by many tribes in the East Coast. The word, which simply meant "women" in Algonquin ...

The Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models that power voice assistants like Amazon Alexa may have difficulty transcribing ...

November's full moon will be Friday night as the last consecutive supermoon in 2024. It's called the beaver moon, and ...