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In 2021, Wild Montana joined other organizations and the CSKT in petitioning the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to rename three places on public lands in Montana honoring Jefferson Davis
In 2021, Wild Montana joined other organizations and the CSKT in petitioning the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to rename three places on public lands in Montana honoring Jefferson Davis
Jefferson "Jeff" Davis' name being scrubbed from Montana peaks, creeks and lands.
Opinion: "Let’s use names for our geography that reflect our state’s true history and make Montanans feel proud and all Americans feel welcome here."
Seven groups asked the U.S. Board of Geographic Names on Tuesday to rename three geographic places in Montana now named after Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederated States of America during the Civil War, and change them in honor of Indigenous people and Chinese immigrants. A petition was submitted by the Montana Racial Equity Project, the Montana Human Rights Network, Forward Montana Foundation, Mai Wah Society, The Montana Wilderness Association, The Wilderness Society and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT). Those places include Davis Gulch, just south of Helena�...