PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 27, 2020
The owner of a ski area near Moosehead Lake is dismissing an effort to change the name of the resort to remove a derogatory reference to Native American women. Three Maine women started circulating a petition Thursday afternoon. The women said they asked the nonprofit that runs the Big Squaw Mountain ski resort for help getting the name changed, but got no results, and the ski area’s owner, James Confalone, says he has no plans to do so. The name of the mountain where the Maine resort is located was changed to Big Moose Mountain following passage of a law signed in 2000 by then-Gov. Angus King.