The National Park Service announced last week that Mount Doane in Yellowstone National Park will be renamed First Peoples Mountain. The agency said Thursday that the change was made to remove an “offensive name” from America’s first national park. The U.S. Geographic Names Council voted unanimously, 15-0, to confirm the decision. Mount Wyoming is located 10,551 feet east of Yellowstone Lake. USA NATIONAL PARKS GRADUAL ABOLITION OF SALES OF PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES The mountain was formerly named after the explorer Gustavus Doane. Yellowstone National Park Sign and Entrance. (iStock) Born in Illinois in 1840, Doane grew up in California and attended Pacific University in Santa Clara before enrolling in the California Hundred, a federal volunteer unit that was absorbed by Massachusetts Second Volunteer Cavalry. After receiving the rank of sergeant until 1864, he resigned to accept a committee as a lieutenant with the first regiment, the Mississippi Marine Brigade, according to Montana State University. After the Civil War, Doane was appointed mayor of Yazoo, Mississippi in 1867. A year later, he applied for a committee with the Army and was appointed a lieutenant in the US Second Cavalry. First Peoples Mountain (center) rises between Top Notch (foreground) and Mount Stevenson (rear right) overlooking Avalanche (NPS / Jacob W. Frank) For the next 24 years, Doane served in the regiment, receiving the rank of captain in 1884. He had parked at border crossings in Montana, California and Arizona during his post-war career. MONTANA MAN DIES IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK He participated in the Sioux War of 1876, the Nez Pearce War of 1877 and the Apache Campaign of 1886. Doane also led the first official exploration of what is now Yellowstone National Park, the 1870 Langford-Washburn Mission. Towards the end of his life, Doane tried unsuccessfully to gain control of Yellowstone National Park and to influence the military’s widespread acceptance of his invention, the Doane Centennial. He died on May 5, 1892. The National Park Service said that in 1870, Doane led an attack on a Piegan Blackfeet gang in response to the alleged murder of a white fur trader. At least 173 American Indians were killed during the massacre today, including many women, elderly people of the tribe and children suffering from smallpox. of his life. ” wrote the agency. The name was forwarded to the Geographical Names Council in June 2022, based on the recommendations of the Rocky Mountain Tribal Council. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Yellowstone National Park has approached all 27 related tribes in recent months and has received no objections or concerns about the change. The name change will be reflected in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) in the coming days. The park said it might consider additional changes to other “derogatory or inappropriate names in the future”. Julia Musto is a Fox News Digital reporter. You can find her on Twitter at @JuliaElenaMusto.
