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Yellowstone Renames one of its Largest Mountains

Western tribes seek name change for Mount Doane

 Yellowstone National Park’s Mount Doane Yellowstone, is renaming one of its largest mountains to honor Indigenous people after research revealed the man it had been named after helped lead a massacre against local tribes. 

 As part of the park's 150th anniversary, officials announced the 10,551-foot high peak formerly called Mount Doane is now First Peoples Mountain. 

 A US national park will be renaming one of its mountains after its prior namesake took part in a massacre that killed 173 Native Americans. The National Park Service said that in 1870, Doane led an attack on a band of Piegan Blackfeet in response to the alleged murder of a White fur trader. “During what is now known as the Marias Massacre, at least 173 American Indians were killed, including many women, elderly Tribal members and children suffering from smallpox. 

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