I was raised beside ‘Squaw Peak’ – it’s time to change America’s offensive place names

Settlers may not like to see Indigenous names returned to the landscape around us. But we were here first

Near the summit of a peak west of Missoula, Montana, the hiking trail forks as it clears the forest of pine and fir trees. A wooden sign indicates the way to a steep climb over tumbled rocks to reach the peak, Ch-paa-qn. This is a Salish word that means shining mountain," or gray, treeless mountain top".

Except that some rube has used a knife to all but scratch the Indigenous word out and replace it with Squaw" in crude letters.