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Popular Grand Canyon hiking spot changes racially offensive name
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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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To: ConservativeMind

Indian Gardens.


21 posted on 11/22/2022 12:17:05 PM PST by Pol-92064
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To: SJackson

Nice pic...The Grand Canyon is a must see.


22 posted on 11/22/2022 12:17:32 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: central_va

“water cooled?”

That large radiator is for the helmet A/C.


23 posted on 11/22/2022 12:17:44 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: SJackson
They can change the official name of the hiking spot, but the existing name will still be used by many.


24 posted on 11/22/2022 12:18:48 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Huskrrrr

If you want diarrhea, just get Jack Daniels and Taco Bell...


25 posted on 11/22/2022 12:19:44 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Pol-92064

Thank you.

I somehow missed that.


26 posted on 11/22/2022 12:20:05 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: TexasGator

Helmet A/C. Cool.


27 posted on 11/22/2022 12:20:09 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: EEGator

I’m celebrating Thanksgiving the old-fashioned way. Invite everyone to my house for an enormous feast, kill them, and take their land.

I don’t think they would like my joke.


28 posted on 11/22/2022 12:20:28 PM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: EEGator
Is that a V-6?

100 Cubic Inch V-Twin.

https://elkhartindianmotorcycle.com/Motorcycles-Indian-Scout-Bobber-ABS-2022-Elkhart-IN-f6dfb51e-6e8f-4cc9-8bd8-adcd004a6bff

29 posted on 11/22/2022 12:20:29 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SJackson
More woketard stupidity, just like taking the Indian woman off the Land o Lakes label:


30 posted on 11/22/2022 12:20:39 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: central_va
water cooled?

Yes.

31 posted on 11/22/2022 12:21:27 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SJackson

How is the name Indian Gardens racially offensive? I get that the local tribe still whines about losing the place, but that is the price of fighting and losing the Indian Wars to the US cavalry, a different issue. Renaming the place after the local tribe hardly corrects an injustice — unless justice consists in imposing a phonetically odd and burdensome name on the rest of us.


32 posted on 11/22/2022 12:21:37 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: SJackson
I don't know....sure seems we have a bunch of whiny a$$ Indians!!!!
33 posted on 11/22/2022 12:22:12 PM PST by ontap
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To: SJackson

They were offended by “Bright Angel Trail”?

What do they have against bright Angels?

It’s not like it was named “Dim Angel Trail”.


34 posted on 11/22/2022 12:22:25 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: SJackson

Thank God we’re not naming anything after Indians and blacks anymore. The left thinks they were getting too uppity apparently.


35 posted on 11/22/2022 12:23:07 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: EEGator
100 Cubic Inch V-Twin.

***CORRECTION***

100 HP 69 c.i. V-Twin.

36 posted on 11/22/2022 12:23:17 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SJackson

Indian motorcycles in big heap truble.
https://www.indianmotorcycle.com/en-us/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAg_KbBhDLARIsANx7wAwscU2SoCp4FNCHCh_HlBm4UhV8XNE_zEt-vw3Zll-ypHJSh0fDnIoaAicFEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds


37 posted on 11/22/2022 12:23:18 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: BushCountry

LOL, I like it. :)


38 posted on 11/22/2022 12:23:45 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Yo-Yo

I think motorcycles are cool, but I would only drive on a closed track.
I’m outside Philly, so the NJ and Philly drivers are terrible.
Nowadays, half the idiots are messing with their phones...


39 posted on 11/22/2022 12:29:45 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ConservativeMind
Havasupai's aren't extinct, they've been there around 800 years and are still in the Grand Canyon. In fact they have a near million acre reservation surrounded by the Park.

And then there's the skywalk

on the related Hualapai Reservation. A quick search reveals many uses of the word Indian on the states tourist sites, Indian Country, Indian Tribal Lands, Arizona American Indian Tourism Association. Lot's of cleansing to do.

40 posted on 11/22/2022 12:36:25 PM PST by SJackson (nations that are barren of liberties are also barren of groceries, Louis Fisher)
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