One of the highest peaks in Yellowstone National Park may be renamed from Mount Doane to the First Peoples Mountain over claims Gustavus Cheyney Doane—after who the mountain is named—was a "horrible man who actively engaged in violence towards Native People."
The Wyoming Board of Geographic Names voted six to two in favor of the name change in a meeting held at the end of May.
https://www.newsweek.com/yellowstone-mount-doane-rename-first-national-park-shouldnt-have-features-named-after-genocide-1442247
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