Squaw Gulch in Ouray County is one of 28 geographical sites in Colorado that will be renamed after Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland last year formally declared “squaw” to be a derogatory term.

Haaland ordered the federal Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force to create new names for more than 660 peaks, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands across the country that use the word “squaw.” Historically, the term has been used as “an offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, parti...