From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley, but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word squaw.
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The leadership of the resort, which will now be known as Palisades Tahoe, says, The old name was derogatory and offensive. The California resort made the decision to change the name last summer, as many U.S. institutions and communities contemplated the legacy of centuries of racism.
Support from community members. Last summer, Roman Rain Tree, a member of the local area Dunlap Band of Mono and Choinumni tribes, started the initiative to change the name, saying that Squaw Valley was offensive to Indigenous people in the region. Squaw Valley is a census-designated place in Fresno County.
First of all, Lake Tahoe's only natural outlet, the Truckee River, carries water into Nevada, not California, where it terminates at Pyramid Lake. This means there are no legal water rights to use Tahoe water in California, aside from a few local uses along the river's path to Nevada.