Tahc'a Okute Wakpa

Tahc'a Okute Wakpa is a stream in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, in the United States.[1]

In the Lakota language, tahc'a okute means "deer-hunting grounds" and wakpa means a stream or river.[1]

The stream was previously known as Squaw-Humper Creek, reputedly named for a local white man who had a live-in Native American girlfriend (squaw).[2] The term "squaw-humper" was cited as "contemptuous" as early as 1940,[3] and was removed from federal usage by a decision of the Board on Geographic Names in 2015.[1]

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References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tahc'a Okute Wakpa
  2. William Bright (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 62.


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