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A towering mountain southwest of Denver has been renamed in honor of Colorados Indigenous people. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted overwhelmingly Friday to change Mount Evans to Mount

By Alaa Elassar, CNN

On one cold November morning in 1864, more than 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal members, mostly women and children, were murdered in one of the worst massacres in American history.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky during the Council of Geographic Names Authorities conference Friday afternoon.

Applause erupted from the crowd as they listened to a federal board’s decision to rename Mount Evans in Colorado to Mount Blue Sky. Some of those cheering were listening virtually as the U.S. …

Tribal leaders are now focusing their efforts on changing the name of the adjacent Mount Evans Wilderness Area to Mount Blue Sky Wilderness area

Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state's disgraced territorial governor John Evans, has been given a new name -- Mount Blue Sky -- by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Tribal leaders are now focusing their efforts on changing the name of the adjacent Mount Evans Wilderness Area to Mount Blue Sky Wilderness area

Today, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names’ officially changed the name of Colorado’s Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky.

Mount Evans, named after the former territorial governor who authorized the indiscriminate murder of Native Americans more than 150 years ago, has a new name.