Posted on 06/10/2022 12:51:28 PM PDT by 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.
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I will call it Tax Free Casino Mountain ... because I don’t give a dime.
Well, ‘Yellowstone’ itself has racist and sexist connotations.
If you are gonna fix things, fix them all.
Am I the only one finds it ironic that a government that only has the power to control what that mountain is called because White men in general slaughtered the Indians and took their land elects to pay homage to the Indians by dis-naming a mountain after an Indian-hunter and re-naming it after some feel-good euphemism the Whites created but the Indians never called themselves by instead of restoring that land to the control of the Indians (or at least letting them decide what it should be named)?
The whole sordid tale is thick with naked virtue-signaling and WOKE hypocricy.
In tribute to the name change the aboriginals broke out in song.
The age old tribute song they know so well.
Hey how are you
Hey how are you
💘
Rename everything The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Everyone else has sinned, First Peoples just as much!
Despicable acts on both sides but you will never hear about it, the indigenous people are a peace loving fun people who were brutally murdered, period! this is all you need to know don’t ask questions racist. How many white settlers women and children were scalped in raids? no statistics on this and it doesn’t matter stick to the narrative, evil white supremacists
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