Posted on 11/22/2022 12:00:53 PM PST by SJackson
National Park Service says area will be called Havasupai Gardens, to honor tribe removed from the region almost 100 years ago
Bright Angel Trail near Havasupai Gardens in Grand Canyon National Park. Bright Angel Trail near Havasupai Gardens in Grand Canyon national park. Photograph: Rwi Fine Art Photography/Alamy Guardian staff Tue 22 Nov 2022 09.08 EST A popular hiking spot in the Grand Canyon is changing its racially offensive name after an agreement was reached with a local Native American tribe.
Indian Gardens – which is a location along the park’s Bright Angel Trail – will now be called Havasupai Gardens, the National Park Service said in a statement. It was previously known as Ha’a Gyoh in the Havasupai language.
The move reflects the fact that members of the Havasupai tribe were removed from the inner rim canyon area almost 100 years ago. The last Havasupai resident, known as Captain Burro, was forcibly removed in 1928.
“This renaming is long overdue. It is a measure of respect for the undue hardship imposed by the park on the Havasupai people,” said the park superintendent, Ed Keable.
Havasupai leaders welcomed the development.
“The eviction of Havasupai residents from Ha’a Gyoh coupled with the offensive name, Indian Garden, has had detrimental and lasting impacts on the Havasupai families that lived there and their descendants,” said the Havusapai chairman, Thomas Siyuja Sr. “Every year, approximately 100,000 people visit the area while hiking the Bright Angel Trail, largely unaware of this history. The renaming of this sacred place to Havasupai Gardens will finally right that wrong.”
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Weak.
Need new signs. New trail maps and guides. Still a nice place, I doubt anyone will know the difference. Many National Parks were built after evicting the residents. Shenandoah and Smokey Mountain among the larger.
There was and is nothing offensive about the previous name.
I suspect the Indians what something more, such as a title deed.
When will AAA change the name of their “Indian Country” map, or have they already done so?
What was it previously called?
“Many National Parks were built after evicting the residents.”
On Cape Cod, white homeowners were given so much time to pack up to make way for a park.
By the 1920s, thousands of acres of Cape Cod were given up rather than pay taxes.
Polaris will have to change the name of their Motorcycle division.
Probably doing it as we speak.
Pretty soon, Indians will be taught with Neanderthals as some relic of the past.
Most mascots named after Indians are/were because they were tough.
I’d be pissed if I was Indian.
I’m suddenly feeling a White Castle hamburger run coming on. Somebody slap me.
Is that a V-6?
Of the prior tribe is extinct, why does a competing tribe now get to claim any involvement?
It is only offensive in the minds of White women named “Karen”.
They can keep the name. Just put a red dot above the headlight.
water cooled?
Some people call it "conservation". Other people call it "Ethnic Cleansing".
“its racially offensive name”
Offensive to rich white liberals, that is. It’s not offensive to actual indians in Arizona as far as I ever noticed.
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