The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted 11-2 on Thursday to rename Squaw Peak in Arizona for Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman who died in action in Iraq.
Piestewa Peak is now the official name for the peak. The state already changed the name but the federal government had to wait five years after Piestewa's death in March 2003 to take action.
Piestewa's family and tribes throughout the country supported the change. Nearly 60 percent of the 1,300 e-mails, letters and phone calls the board received favored the new name, The Arizona Republic reported.
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