Kuwohi name restored to the highest peak in the Smokies - Great Smoky ...
WEB2 days ago · News Release Date: September 18, ... “The Great Smoky National Park team was proud to support this effort to officially restore the mountain and to recognize its importance to the Cherokee People,” said Superintendent Cassius Cash. ... Kuwohi is one of the most popular sites in Great Smoky Mountains …
Smoky Mountains peak now called by Cherokee name 'Kuwohi'
WEB1 day ago · KNOXVILLE, Tenn. − The highest peak in the sprawling Great Smoky Mountains National Park is dropping the name of a Confederate general in favor of its Cherokee name "Kuwohi." The U.S. Board of ...
Cherokee name for Great Smoky Mountains NP'sClingmans …
WEB5 hours ago · 1:04. The highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is no longer named after a Confederate general. Following lobbying from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the U.S. Board of ...
The Smoky Mountains’ highest peak is reverting to its Cherokee …
WEB2 days ago · GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band …
The Smoky Mountains’ highest peak returns to Native American …
WEB1 day ago · The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
Great Smoky Mountains’ highest peak reclaims Cherokee name …
WEB1 day ago · Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is America's most visited national park, and Kuwohi is one its most popular sites, with more than 650,000 visitors per ...
Clingmans Dome renamed Kuwohi in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
WEB2 days ago · The federal board on Sept. 18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Eastern Band of the Cherokee ...
The Smoky Mountains' highest peak is reverting to the Cherokee …
WEB2 days ago · The park says Kuwohi is a sacred place for the Cherokee people and the highest point within the traditional Cherokee homeland. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is America’s most visited ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Changes Name Of …
WEBThe park has begun changing the signage in Smoky Mountains Park. "The Great Smoky National Park team was proud to support this effort to officially restore the mountain and to recognize its ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park peak reverting to Cherokee …
WEB1 day ago · A pickup truck drives by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park entrance as a more than mile-long convoy of vehicles is lead out of the popular tourist spot near Townsend, Tenn., on Friday, July ...
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