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Board pauses on state-recommended replacement for 'SQ Carpet Lane,' asks tribal consortium outreach
Summary
Plumas County supervisors paused on adopting a new name for a road historically containing the offensive term “squaw” after state staff and several tribal representatives proposed different replacement names.
The Plumas County Board of Supervisors discussed a state‑led process to replace the road name historically containing the derogatory term sometimes shortened as “SQ” and considered competing tribal recommendations for a replacement name.
Planning Director Tracy Ferguson briefed the board on Assembly Bill 2022’s statewide process to remove offensive place names and on local public input the county provided in October 2024. The county had transmitted a direct Mountain Maidu translation (presented locally by Harley Lee and Danny Manning) as its preferred replacement: “Demtatoko”…
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