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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Indian Gardens.
Nice pic...The Grand Canyon is a must see.
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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.
They were offended by “Bright Angel Trail”?
What do they have against bright Angels?
It’s not like it was named “Dim Angel Trail”.
Thank God we’re not naming anything after Indians and blacks anymore. The left thinks they were getting too uppity apparently.
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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.
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