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Christina Gray spent a lot of time in national parks, reading plaques and paying attention to the names of nearby mountains, lakes and rivers.
She quickly realized how most places were named after Europeans — or, in some cases, their pets.
Gray, a Ts'msyen and Dene lawyer, decided to make it a mission to reclaim Indigenous place names.
What she found in her report with Daniel Rück for the Yellowhead Institute wasn’t all that surprising to her. “[It is] mostly white people or settlers who are changing the names to suit their whims or desires or values,” Gray said.
Many of the stories about how places were named are similar — they started out with an Indigenous name but it was replaced with an English one.
The report mentions a German-Canadian land surveyor named Otto Klotz, who named lakes in southern Manitoba after his children, employees and even his pets.
Gray said some examples are much more egregious than others. A peak near Canmore, Alta. nicknamed “Squaw’s Tit” was one that stuck out for her.
The word “squaw” is a derogatory term used against Indigenous women.
“It almost makes me want to cry, actually,” Gray said. “But [a few] people had such a personal connection to the place name … and didn’t want it to be renamed.
“Think about [how] there’s so many missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and how you referred to something that’s so awful … those have effects, real-life effects on people. It’s not just about a place name.”
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