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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado state panel recommended Thursday that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board voted unanimously for the change.
A Colorado state panel has recommended Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky
A Colorado state panel has recommended Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky. The peak is named after John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor, who resigned after an 1864 U.S. cavalry massacre of more than 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people.
A Colorado state panel suggested to change the name of Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky. The original name is tied to the massacre of more than 200 Native Americans.
The state’s Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday voted unanimously to strip the name of disgraced territorial governor John Evans from a Clear Creek County fourteener and recommended Mount Blue Sky as the new name, honoring Cheyenne...