She knew about this too and I was telling her about the way they got the name changed. I did not know that they had this same name being used within the Navajo Nation, I thought she had perhaps heard something about it.
I was telling her about the situation here where we live and about the tribal chairwoman here taking the responsibility to have this changed.
It is a different place, not located in Arizona.
I suppose this gives credence to the fact that using the term "squaw" is indeed an inflammatory term.
What goes on with the Navajo Nation holds true for the part of California where this former "Squaw Valley" is located.
Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll mention it to my friend the next time I talk to her. She is an elder (78 years old and was born and raised on the reservation in Arizona and her mother and family were relocated to San Francisco in the 1950s when they were moving Indian people around as to properly "assimilate" them into Western culture .... 
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Sad at best.
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