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| Above, one of several Yellowstone valleys. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
A call has been made by Indian tribes to have two locations in Yellowstone National Park renamed. They claim that persons that these locations are named after committed atrocities against Indians.
According to KTVQ:
GARDINER - Tribes want to see the names changed of two locations in Yellowstone National Park.
Tribal members rallied Saturday in Gardiner to call for the name replacement of Mount Doane and Hayden Valley.
“I was the first and last man in the Piikani camp, January 23, 1870. The greatest slaughter of Indians ever made by U.S. troops.”
That’s Chief Stan Grier of the Blackfoot Confederacy quoting Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, who was present at the murder of 173 Native Americans near the Marias River in January 1870.
The tribes would like to see Mount Doane changed to the First Peoples Mountain.
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