Movement to Remove War Criminal's Name in Yellowstone National Park Began in a Northern Cheyenne Home

BILLINGS, Mont. - By a unanimous vote of 15-0, on June 9th the US Board on Geographic Names ended a decade-long struggle to remove the name of Lieutenant Gustavus Cheney Doane from a 10,551-foot peak that towers above the southeastern sector of Yellowstone National Park, east of Yellowstone Lake.

Like much of Yellowstone, the lake is a sacred site to numerous Tribes, several of which have origin narratives associated with it. First Peoples Mountain will now grace the horizon above the lake, not Mount Doane.

Park County, Wyoming, which borders Yellowstone, previously opposed the name change, while the Wyoming Board on Geographic Names approved it. All twenty-seven Associated Tribes of Yellowstone backed the removal of what the National Park Service now concedes is an "offensive name."

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