BUFFALO (AP) — Members of the Seneca Indian Nation joined Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown as he signed a bill changing the name of Squaw Island.
The island park in the Niagara River is now called Unity Island.
Monday’s bill signing followed a vote by the Common Council last month to change the 336-year-old name following complaints that it was offensive to Native American women.
The action continues a nationwide movement toward replacing the names of sports teams and geographical sites whose labels are now viewed as insensitive or outright offensive.
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“… followed a vote by the Common Council last month to change the 336-year-old name following complaints that it was offensive to Native American women.”
Be interesting to see exactly WHO the hell complained… IF anyone.
What a crock!
Absolutely agree. I don’t even think people in Buffalo even knew the name of that island. I grew up in Buffalo and although I have passed this island many times, I have never heard the name of it before nor have I ever been on it, mainly because there’s nothing of any significance on it.
To hear people complain about it or recommend changing the name shows me, once again, that Buffalo is a dead town in which nothing big ever happens because the elite in control of it like it that way.