A year back, the Squaw Valley board of directors chose they required to change the name of the ski hotel in Lake Tahoe.
That new name has actually been announced:
Palisades Tahoe.
On their internet site, the board claimed the name "Squaw Valley" was negative and offensive.
The resort, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics, and also Alpine Meadows are under the very same ownership. Alpine will preserve its name. The two resorts, connected by a cable auto, will certainly be known collectively as Palisades Tahoe.
Palisades Tahoe head of state Dee Byrne claimed the name change shows the resort can adapt to the modern-day period." This name change shows who we are as a ski hotel and area-- we have a reputation for being dynamic as well as boundary-breaking when it concerns feats of winter sports as well as snowboarding,"Byrne claimed in a press release. "We have shown that those values surpass the snow for us. It's an incredibly exciting time to be part of Palisades Tahoe as well as after greater than ten years at the resort, I'm recognized to be leading our team into this brand-new period."
Darrel Cruz, Washoe Tribal historical preservation policeman, claimed the name "Squaw Valley" was a reminder of unjustified treatment of Indigenous Americans.
"We have actually been in the area for thousands of years. Olympic Valley is within the genealogical homeland of the Washoe individuals," Cruz claimed. "It's a continuous reminder of those time periods when it was bad for us. It's a term that was caused upon us by somebody else as well as we do not concur with it."
The hotel's new logo is implied to stand for the history of Olympic Valley as well as the Washoe tribe. There is an explanation on the resort's web site: "The Eagle is an epic symbol of flexibility that watches our valleys."
" We added our 2 mountains in such a way that can likewise be read as eagle plumes or the waters of Lake Tahoe, "the website claimed."The shapes reference the flat land as well as cliffs of the Palisades, while the wavelike types radiate the unique vibes of California society."
The board of directors claimed there have been many comparable efforts across the country to replace the name "Squaw Valley."
Words" squaw,"derived from the Algonquin language, may have when simply implied"woman," however over generations, the word morphed into a misogynist as well as racist term to disparage aboriginal females. When settlers arrived in the 1850s in the location where the Sierra Nevada resort is now situated, they initially saw just Indigenous American females operating in a field. The land near Lake Tahoe was believed to have
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Jim Krajewski covers high school and youth sports for the Reno Gazette Journal. Follow him on Twitter @RGJPreps. Assistance his job by registering for RGJ.com.
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