Federal body renames Nazi Creek in Alaska

(JNS) — The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a 135-year-old federal body, voted on Thursday to change the names of two entities in Alaska, one with Nazi ties and the other a derogatory term for Japanese people.

The board’s domestic names committee approved changing Nazi Creek, a mile-long stretch on the state’s Aleutian Islands, to a phrase that means “gizzard creek” in the Unangam Tunuu indigenous language.

It also opted to change nearby Nip Hill, an anti-Japanese reference, to a phrase that means “gizzard hill.”

Michael Livingston, a former police captain and member of the Qawalangin Tribe of...