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Lake in the state of California, United States

Nüümü Hu Hupi
View from the south-west (June 30, 2009)
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Location	John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada, Fresno County, California, United States
Coordinates	37°28′36.78″N 118°55′22.44″W / 37.4768833°N 118.9229000°W / 37.4768833; -118.9229000
Basin countries	United States

Surface elevation	10,315 ft (3,144 m)

Nüümü Hu Hupi (formerly Squaw Lake) is a small lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, near the John Muir Trail in John Muir Wilderness. It is located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) west-northwest of Mount Izaak Walton and 5 miles (8.0 km) north-northeast of Lake Thomas A Edison. at an altitude of 10,315 feet (3,144 m). The outflow of Nüümü Hu Hupi becomes Fish Creek, which eventually joins the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River. The name was controversial because squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur, historically used for indigenous North American women. The name was changed by the United States Board of Geographic Names on September 8, 2022.

References

^ "Nüümü Hu Hupi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. January 19, 1981. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
National Museum of the American Indian (2007). Do All Indians Live in Tipis?. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-115301-3.
Schulman, Susan (16 Jan 2015). "Squaw Island to be renamed 'Deyowenoguhdoh'". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 14 April 2019. The proposed name change comes at the request of Native Americans, who say the word "squaw" is a racist, sexist term
Arlene B. Hirschfelder; Paulette Fairbanks Molin (2012). The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists. Scarecrow. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-8108-7709-2.
King, C. Richard, "De/Scribing Squ*w: Indigenous Women and Imperial Idioms in the United States" in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v27 n2 p1-16 2003. Accessed Oct. 9, 2015

v t e John Muir Wilderness
Mountains	Abbot Agassiz Baldwin Baxter Bloody Cirque Crocker Dade Four Gables Goodale Graveyard Herlihy Hilgard Hopkins Humphreys Huntington Hutton Izaak Walton Julius Caesar Kearsarge Laurel Middle Palisade Mills Morgan Morrison Muir Norman Clyde North Palisade Palisade Crest Pilot Knob Red and White Red Slate Sawmill Point Seven Gables Sill Split Stanford Starr Temple Crag Thunderbolt Tom Tyndall University Whitney Williamson
Rivers	Bishop Creek North Fork Kings River Morgan Creek Rock Creek South Fork San Joaquin River
Lakes	Dingleberry Disappointment Hell for Sure Loch Leven Lone Indian Mills Nüümü Hu Hupi Pee Wee Virginia
Trails	John Muir Trail Pacific Crest Trail

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