Removing Stereotypes, or Erasing Peoples?

I’m not sure exactly what triggered this, although I think it was <a href="https://medium.com/travel-etc/mosi-oa-tunya-reclaiming-the-african-names-of-african-places-19b5917e65a1" rel="noopener">Kaden N. Thaxton’s travelogue of Mosi-oa-Tunya</a> and something semi-humorous I read decades ago about countries’ historical land ownership in the Middle East (I believe it was in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-friend-God-signet-book/dp/B0006Y2OCW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5Q0C1R20OHUG&keywords=dave+berg+my+friend+god&qid=1697577426&sprefix=dave+berg+my+friend+god%2Caps%2C73&sr=8-1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Dave Berg’s (of Mad magazine) Lighter Side series My Friend God </a>...)* My thought was, “didn’t all of our land structures have names before the people we now call “indigenous” inhabited them? Did <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lucy</a>’s people have a name for “Thundering Smoke”? Did the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasazi_(disambiguation)" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi)</a> have another, older name for Pueblo Canyon? Where do we stop pulling back the layers of names? This morning, I was considering some of the most recent renaming of brands that had Black characters as brand images. Much of the controversy circled around the use of caricatures (the obese, enslaved mother/utiliwife substitute; the house cook, etc.) and a historical prohibition from using proper honorifics for Black adults (“Aunt” and “Uncle” instead of “Mrs.” or “Miss” and “Mr.”). <a href="https://webwarren.medium.com/removing-stereotypes-or-erasing-peoples-dd2327ba917e">Website</a>