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The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 06, 2020
Lawyers hope to erase racist and misogynistic nickname of mountain landmark
Momentum is building to properly name a prominent landmark on a mountain in the Alberta Rockies because its commonly used nickname is racist and misogynistic.
The feature, which has been known since the 1920s as Squaw's Tit, is located near the summit on Mount Charles Stewart and can be seen from the mountain town of Canmore.
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Two Alberta lawyers, Jude Daniels and Natasha Egan, have been working since 2014 to find a formal name for the landmark.
"(We) are just disgusted by the name," Egan said in an interview from Calgary. "Colloquially, people call it The Tit.
"So the racism was dropped, but the misogyny remains."
The word "squaw" came from the Algonquin language and once simply meant woman, but the word has evolved into a term to disparage Indigenous women.
Egan said she and Daniels, who is Metis and works with Aboriginal communities, have been speaking to the province and the Stoney Nakoda Nation to come up with a traditional Indigenous name for the landmark.
They would like to propose a name that honours missing and murdered Indigenous women, she said.
Two recent attempts
There have been two recent attempts to officially name the landmark, but the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation board rejected both.
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