A mountain in Yellowstone National Park has been renamed in honor of Native Americans who were massacred
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Yellowstone National Park has renamed one of its mountains to honor Native Americans instead of the US Army captain who massacred them. Once named after Gustavus Doane, Mount Doane has been renamed First Peoples Mountain, the National Park Service (NPS) announced on Thursday.
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A U.S. government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a military officer who helped lead a massacre of Native Americans. The National Park
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Yellowstone National Park has renamed one of its mountains to honor Native Americans instead of the US Army captain who massacred them. Once named after Gustavus Doane, Mount Doane has been renamed First Peoples Mountain, the National Park Service (NPS) announced on Thursday.
Mount Doane, previously named after Lt. Gustavus Doane who in 1870 helped lead an attack that killed at least 173 American Indians, will now be called First Peoples Mountain.
