Tribes call for name changes in Yellowstone

Mead Gruver (AP via Washington Post, 9/12); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED 9/18/17

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The USA has 59 national parks with Yellowstone being the second best, behind Yosemite.

Yellowstone National Park is a national park on land taken from Native Americans in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho established by Congress and Pres. Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.

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Tribes want change to Yellowstone names

The beauty of Yellowstone National Park in the winter, with wildlife, trees, and rivers

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We attest: Sioux and Blackfoot were here first.

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - Two tribes demonstrated in favor of renaming a valley and a mountain in Yellowstone National Park.

 
These places are associated with two white men who advocated [genocide, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, and the wholesale] slaughter of Native Americans and another who carried it out.
 
Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Great Sioux Nation gathered Saturday at Yellowstone’s North Entrance near Gardiner, Montana, tribal officials said.
 
The tribes seek to change the name of Hayden Valley, a sub-alpine valley just north of Yellowstone Lake, to Buffalo Nations Valley.

 

They want to change the name of Mount Doane, a 10,550-foot (3,216-meter) peak five miles east of the lake, to First People’s Mountain.
 

Old Faithful geyser, pride of the park

Efforts to change place names and remove monuments to controversial figures in U.S. history have gained momentum since white supremacists oppose taking down a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and clashed in August with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

But several Native American renaming efforts -- some simply to erase racist terminology from maps -- have been going on for years.

Elsewhere in Wyoming, tribes seek to change Devils Tower, the name of an 870-foot (265-meter) volcanic mesa in the first U.S. national monument, to Bear Lodge.

[White] Devils Tower

Officers at Fort Ellis, 1871. Genocidal G.C. Doane 4th from left (W.H. Jackson/USGS)

  

I repeatedly said, "Kill them."

Devils Tower is the name white settlers gave the feature. Bear Lodge is what the Lakota, Crow, Cheyenne, and other tribes call the formation important and sacred to their cultures.

 
In Yellowstone, Hayden Valley is named for Ferdinand V. Hayden, a geologist whose explorations inspired the park’s establishment in 1872 but who called for exterminating American Indians who wouldn’t acquiesce to [white rule and] becoming [indentured servants, slaves] farmers and ranchers.
 

I killed them, for the US Army.

Mount Doane is named after U.S. Army Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, who took part in killing 173 [helpless] noncombatant Indians -- women, children, and elderly men -- in Montana in 1870.

 

“America’s first national park should no longer have features named after the proponents and exponents of genocide,” the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, which represents every tribe in Montana and Wyoming, stated in a 2014 resolution.

 
The tribes of Yellowstone

There are Natives in the US today. They weren't all killed. (All the Real Indians Died Off)

 

The tribes asked Yellowstone last year to rename Hayden Valley and Mount Doane. Park officials responded by explaining the renaming process overseen by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names, park Superintendent Dan Wenk said.
 
“The National Park Service understands that this is an important and sensitive issue,” Wenk said in a statement Tuesday. “We look forward to continuing this conversation.”
 
The Park Service has a responsibility to take up the matter with the board on the tribes’ behalf, said Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Chairman Brandon Sazue.
 

US genocide (Yale U.)

“We are not individuals, we are sovereign nations, many with treaty rights to this region, and those treaties are enshrined in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution,” Sazue said by email.

 

The Board on Geographic Names has received several emails on the issue but no official proposal to change the names of Hayden Valley or Doane Mountain, Geological Survey officials said. Source

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