Pickaninny Buttes

Pickaninny Buttes is a summit in San Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It has an elevation of 2,999 feet (914 m).[1] The butte is composed of granite.[2]

The name has attracted criticism from the media because it contains the ethnic slur pickaninny.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pickaninny Buttes
  2. ^ Jaeger, Edmund Carroll (1950). Our Desert Neighbors. Stanford University Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0804710978.
  3. ^ Fonesca, Felicia; Cone, Tracie (February 26, 2012). "From Negro Creek to Wop Draw, place names offend". NBC News. Retrieved 6 September 2014.