Yellowstone mountain that honored massacre leader renamed

The Associated Press ^ | June 10, 2022

[Oldeconomybuyer]

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a U.S. Army officer who helped lead a massacre of Native Americans.

Mount Doane will now be called First Peoples Mountain after the unanimous vote by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the National Park Service announced Thursday.

The 10,551-foot (3,200-meter) peak in southeastern Yellowstone in Wyoming had been named for Lt. Gustavus Doane, who in 1870 helped lead an attack on a band of Piegan Blackfeet in northern Montana.

Doane bragged for the rest of his life about what become known as the Marias Massacre. The attack in response to the alleged slaying of a white fur trader killed at least 173 American Indians, including many women, elders and children suffering from smallpox, Yellowstone officials said in a statement.

Besides being a leader of the massacre, Doane was a key member of a Yellowstone expedition the same year. Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in 1872.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Who will be the leader of the impending United Nation’s white people massacre?

[Robwin]

Mount Doane will now be called First Peoples Mountain

This renaming movement borders on silly.

[BenLurkin]

[Tell It Right]

When will the Flathead and Kootenai tribal member and protest this monument being used to honor the people who displaced their tribes: the Piegan Blackfoot tribe that is the "victim" of this article?

For whatever reason, it's worth talking about only if whites are the bad guys.

[IC Ken]

He was just following Government orders. First they went after the red man now they are after the white man.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Did those “First Peoples” ever massacre other tribes? Or were they all living in blissful harmony with each other and commencing peaceably with nature?

So are now giving up “Native American” now and are transitioning to “First Peoples”? It seems only yesterday we stopped using “Indians” and started using “Native American.” Did anybody ask the Canucks if they are happy with us appropriating and modifying their “First Nations” jargon?

[shotgun]

Should have renamed it Hoppity Poppity (Lightening with the Yellow Hair)

[hanamizu]

Mount Doane will now be called First Peoples Mountain

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What a catchy name! Rolls right off the tongue! Also reminiscent of Soviet names.

[Williams]

Ridiculous new name

[palmer]

Sounds like the name of a bank. Maybe they should raise money by selling naming rights, e.g . Mount JP Morgan Chase & Co.

[PIF]

Who will be the leader of the impending United Nation’s white people massacre?
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Biden.

[DoughtyOne]

Don’t you dare relegate anyone to a second class position.

Only the government can do that.

“First Peoples...”

Well Whites, welcome to your 7th Class status in what amounts
to the new Caste System here in the United States.

I knew India was the model we were seeking.

They’re trying to make cows untouchable too.

[DoughtyOne]

Xiden...

[TexasFreeper2009]

every one of these and the military bases need to be changed back the moment we regain control.

[PIF]

Maybe like Canada seeding the Northwest Territories to their nates, we will eventually seed a large portion of the USA to the semi-indigenous some-number-down-the-list tribes ‘created here’.

[PIF]

sorry - spell check you know.

[Texan5]

If they just had to rename it, why not name it after the Blackfeet tribe? Any name that has “Peoples” in it sounds like the place is in the old USSR...

[DoughtyOne]

Smile...

Yeah, I can’t proof read myself either. LOL

Just teasing...

[wardamneagle]

Just call it Woke Mountain.