Popular Grand Canyon hiking spot changes racially offensive name

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[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.”

[rhinohunter]

I suspect the Indians what something more, such as a title deed.

or at least some more fire water…

[SJackson]

Not the first time the left has found something offensive there.

Plaques with Biblical Psalms Removed from Grand Canyon
July 23, 2003 Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/6365296.htm

On July 23, 2003 the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed an editorial by Jim Jones stating that "last week, bronze plaques with Bible passages declaring God's majesty and glory were removed from three popular lookout spots on the South Rim of the canyon. Grand Canyon National Park officials removed them after complaints from the American Civil Liberties Union and others... During a recent visit, I saw the plaques, including one from Psalms 104:24, which declares: 'Oh Lord, how manifold are thy works, in wisdom hast made them all. The earth is full of thy riches.' To me, as I looked out across God's splendor, the words seemed appropriate... The Rev. Edward Purkey, the park's resident minister, who also is part of an international group called A Christian Ministry to the National Parks, said he has mixed feelings... 'I loved them; I enjoyed them,' he said. 'But it didn't surprise me they were removed. Thirty years ago, America was a more Christian nation. Now we are much more diverse.'"

[SuperLuminal]

Where is the required barf alert?😃

[larryleo]

While the world falls apart, this is what they’re worried about.

[larryleo]

California has infected Arizona.

[SJackson]

Infected the United States, this is a Federal decision.

[antidemoncrat]

Rocks are racist ... I just knew it ... but I’m sure it is only the white ones.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

article: "the offensive name, Indian Garden"

They must be kidding. The name "Indian Garden" is considered offensive?. These are snowflakes. Indians must be suffering from "Low T" these days.

[SpaceBar]

The happy-face version of the communist Chinese destruction of their historical artifacts.

[EEGator]

Yep, completely ridiculous.

If we enter a legitimate global depression, these pansies will all die.

[Nik Naym]

“On Cape Cod, white homeowners were given so much time to pack up to make way for a park.”

If I were one of them, I would be pleased to have it named “Honkey Park”.

[mykroar]

iswydt

[Vendome]

If you are member of a clan, everyone else is a competitor or an enemy

If you are a member of band, everyone else is a competitor or an enemy

If you are a member of a tribe, everyone else is a competitor or an enemy.

Havasupai are no different and they are not Indians...

[x]

Now do the people Virginia FDR evicted to make Shenandoah National Park. Lots of people of all different races and colors were thrown off their land to make National Parks. More here.

[Salamander]

Up next?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You wrote "Need new signs. New trail maps and guides."

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) in Western Montana have done just that. Within their Flathead Indian Reservation is the "Bison Range." The 1855 Hellgate Treaty ceded the reservation land to the tribes, but in 1908, the federal government took back 18,000 acres for the "Bison Range" as part of the then-new National Wildlife Refuge System.

This year there was a major change: the land is still owned by the U.S. federal government, but, instead of being owned by the United States as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, it is now owned by the U.S. in trust for the Tribes. The 2022 change removed the land from the National Wildlife Refuge System and the tribes now manage the bison herd and the Range.

Here's the connection to the Grand Canyon story. Near the Bison Range, the tribes have put up place signs in the Indian language. Below the Indian name is the English translation of the Indian name and sometimes the old white man name for the place. The Indian name are great and descriptive like:

My favorite is:

US Fish & Wildlife site: National Bison Range

CSKT site: Bison Range Restoration

[nicollo]

If they're so upset about the injustice of the events, doesn't this rather meaningless name (nobody knows who the "Havasupai" are, much less how to spell it in "Havasupai") thereby erase all memory of it?

I'd recommend some historical honesty in the name. How about, The

"What Used to be Called 'Indian Gardens' Gardens Because Whitey Stole It from Some Primitive Neolithic Tribes Nobody Ever Heard Of Who Were There After Having Stolen It Themselves From Earlier Tribes Nobody Ever Heard Of and Who Got Kicked Out By Whitey Because They Were Sitting on Lucrative Silver Deposits But Had No Idea Because They Hadn't Invented Metal Working Yet But They Have Since Learned From Whitey How to Sue the Crap Out of the US Government Which is More Profitable Than Silver Mining Anyway"

[ProtectOurFreedom]

One other things...it is interesting that the CSKT has not provided a native language name for the "Bison Range" itself (at least not one I'm aware of). Here's a pic of the Range from our visit a couple weeks ago...

[Bookshelf]

Havasupai know that paleface stupid. Ask anyone, they will claim every rock, every tree, every shittingplace in Arizona is sacred

[nevermorelenore]

maybe the State of “Indiana” should do the same !!

c’mon, man - 🤪