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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I’ve always wanted an Indian motorcycle !!!
Perhaps though I consider the state and city named after the Duke of York, later King, founder of the Royal African Company, English monopoly selling black slaves to her colonies more offensive.
Those names make sense. I assume they’re on Indian land. Lot’s of “offensive” names in Arizona. Dead man’s this, Devil’s that. Funny what offends people.
If the government really wanted to fix past mistakes they would give the land back to the families of those they evicted.
Wokey, woke gardens.
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