Yellowstone Mountain Name Renamed To ‘Honor Victims’ Of 1870 Montana Massacre

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A authorities panel has renamed a Yellowstone Nationwide Park mountain that had been named for a U.S. Military officer who helped lead a bloodbath of Native People.

Mount Doane will now be known as First Peoples Mountain after the unanimous vote by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the Nationwide Park Service introduced Thursday.

The ten,551-foot (3,200-meter) peak in southeastern Yellowstone in Wyoming had been named for Lt. Gustavus Doane, who in 1870 helped lead an assault on a band of Piegan Blackfeet in northern Montana.

Doane bragged for the remainder of his life about what turn out to be referred to as the Marias Bloodbath. The assault in response to the alleged slaying of a white fur dealer killed a minimum of 173 American Indians, together with many ladies, elders and kids affected by smallpox, Yellowstone officers mentioned in a press release.

Apart from being a pacesetter of the bloodbath, Doane was a key member of a Yellowstone expedition the identical yr. Yellowstone grew to become the world’s first nationwide park in 1872.

Yellowstone officers consulted with 27 tribes on the identify change, in line with the assertion.

“This identify change is lengthy overdue. All of us agreed on ‘First Peoples’ Mountain’ as an applicable identify to honor the victims of such inhumane acts of genocide, and to additionally remind folks of the ten,000-year-plus connection tribal peoples must this sacred place now known as Yellowstone,” Piikani Nation Chief Stan Grier mentioned in a press release Wednesday.

The Piikani Nation’s conventional territory covers a lot of Montana, together with the location of the Marias Bloodbath, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.