Tribal leaders urge Yellowstone Park name changes
Source: Great Falls Tribune
GARDINER — Leaders of Native American tribes gathered this weekend to urge the U.S. government to rename a valley and a mountain in Yellowstone National Park.
They say the names are associated with a man who advocated killing Native Americans and another who did just that.
The Billings Gazette reports the tribal leaders delivered a petition Saturday to park officials noting their opposition to the names of Hayden Valley and Mount Doane.
U.S. Army Lt. Gustavus Doane participated in an 1870 massacre of 173 noncombatant Indians in Montana.
Ferdinand Hayden, whose explorations were a key element in the eventual creation of the park, called for exterminating American Indians who wouldn't become farmers and ranchers.
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Some of the most beautiful words in any language, I think: Chattahoochee, Chestatee, Coosa, Coosawattee, Toccoa, Yonah, Chatooga, Cartecay, Ellijay, Dahlonega, Tickanetley, Conasauga, Oostanaula, Etowah, and many, many more; cities, mountains, rivers that sing with the living language of a vanished people. Well, not entirely vanished, thank goodness. I myself am proud to be 1/32nd Cherokee. Restoring the ancient native names of the mountain and the valley in Yellowstone would be a very good thing. 
