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Rethinking How Colorado’s Geographic Sites Are Named

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By Carol McKinley

August 20, 2020

<p>Fresh snow covers the mountain peaks east of Frisco, Colo., Saturday Oct. 5, 2013.</p> — A Geographic Naming Advisory Board is reconsidering how the names of geographic locations are chosen in Colorado with consideration of the viewpoint of Indigenous people.

<p>Fresh snow covers the mountain peaks east of Frisco, Colo., Saturday Oct. 5, 2013.</p> — A Geographic Naming Advisory Board is reconsidering how the names of geographic locations are chosen in Colorado with consideration of the viewpoint of Indigenous people.

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