‘Palisades Tahoe’ Chosen As New Name For Lake Tahoe’s Olympic Valley Resort

TAHOE CITY (CBS13) — One of Lake Tahoe’s most-celebrated skis resorts has picked its caller name.

On Monday, officials announced that they person chosen Palisades Tahoe arsenic the caller sanction of the Olympic Valley edifice erstwhile known arsenic Squaw Valley Ski Resort.

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The determination to driblet the aged sanction was made past twelvemonth aft owners consulted with section Native American groups astir the word “squaw.” Critics person pointed retired that the word is simply a racist and sexist slur for Indigenous women.

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“It is inspiring that aft 7 decades successful operation, a institution arsenic storied and established arsenic this edifice tin inactive bespeak and set erstwhile it is the indispensable and close happening to do,” said Dee Byrne, the resort’s president and main operating officer, successful a statement.

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Tribes person been asking the resort, which hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics, to alteration the sanction for years.

CBS13 Staff