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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Massacre leader’s name scrubbed from Yellowstone mountain

Jacob W. Frank / National Park Service

A Yellowstone National Park mountain named after a US Army officer who helped lead a massacre of Native Americans will now be called First Peoples Mountain.

The US Board on Geographic Names voted unanimously to rename Mount Doane, a 10,551-foot (3215m) peak in southeastern Yellowstone.

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