The Power of Naming: Impact on Oppression and Colonization

The power of naming creates realities and dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. Like so many racially charged and inappropriate mascot and team sports names have to be overcome, there still remain place names of towns and parks that use derogatory terms like s-q-u-a-w and savage and the like. Chase Iron Eyes, Director of lakotalaw.org emphasizes how these names perpetuate a harmful reality for the colonized and the othered. The #renamed campaign calls for a reexamination and change in these place names that not only impact Native Americans, but also Aftrican Americans, Latinx and other racially and nationally oppressed people. Learn more about this campaign at lakota.law/ren...

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