Question related to use of the terms "squaw" and "pale face":

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23. Governor Janet Napolitano in 2003:

Renamed a mountain and freeway.

Cheers for Arizona’s governor and a Hopi warrior

by Tim Giago
The successful effort by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to rename a Phoenix mountain after an American Indian woman killed in Iraq needn’t have turned into a nasty fight.

Gov. Napolitano wanted to honor an Arizona citizen, Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Nation, because she was the first American woman to die in the war.

But to Republican state Rep. John Allen, "I think it sets the tone for what her governorship is going to be like. It's going to be very Clintonesque-style in the sense where you take advantage (of the situation), no matter whose grief it is."

Gov. Napolitano was cheered in Piestewa's hometown of Tuba City, on the Navajo Nation, when she promised to rename Squaw Peak Mountain and Squaw Freeway to Piestewa Mountain and Piestewa Freeway. However, many business owners who use Squaw Peak in their name were peeved.

http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14046/print_view

This is the story that I came across.

I certainly agree with you about the mistreatment of native people and women in particular.