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BOULDER — The University of Colorado has backed off a proposal to rename two dorms on the Boulder campus using the Arapaho tribe’s traditional Hinono’ei spellings.
A plan to transform Kittredge West into Nowoo3 Hall and Kittredge Central into Houusoo Hall was approved last November by a campus planning group that advises chancellor Phil DiStefano.
But the proposal now set to go before the CU Board of Regents for initial approval on Friday asks to rename the buildings Niwot Hall and Little Raven Hall, and makes no mention of the Hinono’ei spellings.
Nowoo3, pronounced “Na-waath,” is the Arapaho word for Chief Niwot or Left Hand. Houusoo, pronounced “Ho-sah,” is Chief Little Raven.
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