Nüümü Hu Hupi (formerly Squaw Lake) is a small lake in the eastern
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
, near the
John Muir Trail in
John Muir Wilderness. It is located west-northwest of
Mount Izaak Walton and north-northeast of
Lake Thomas A Edison. at an altitude of .
The outflow of Nüümü Hu Hupi becomes
Fish Creek, which eventually joins the Middle Fork of the
San Joaquin River. The name was controversial because
squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for indigenous North American women.
[King, C. Richard,]
De/Scribing Squ*w: Indigenous Women and Imperial Idioms in the United States
in the ''American Indian Culture and Research Journal'', v27 n2 p1-16 2003. Accessed Oct. 9, 2015 The name was changed by the
United States Board of Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior. The purpose of the board is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the federal governm ...
on September 8, 2022.
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See also
* List of lakes in California
References
Lakes of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Squaw
Sierra National Forest
Mountain lakes
Lakes of California
Lakes of Northern California
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