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The National Park Service announced last week that Mount Doane in Yellowstone National Park would be renamed First Peoples Mountain.
The agency said Thursday that the change was made to remove an “offensive name” from the first U.S. national park.
The U.S. Geographic Names Board voted unanimously, 15-0, confirming the decision.
Mount Wyoming is 10,551 feet east of Yellowstone Lake.
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The mountain was named after explorer Gustavus Doane.
Yellowstone National Park sign and entrance. (iStock)
Born in Illinois in 1840, Doane grew up in California and attended the University of the Pacific in Santa Clara before enlisting in the California Hundred, a federal volunteer unit absorbed by the Massachusetts Second Volunteer Cavalry.
After graduating as a sergeant in 1864, he resigned to accept a commission as a lieutenant with the First Regiment, the Mississippi Marine Brigade, according to Montana State University.
After the Civil War, Doane was appointed mayor of Yazoo City Mississippi in 1867.
A year later, he applied for a commission with the military and was appointed second lieutenant of the U.S. Second Cavalry.
First Peoples Mountain (center) rises between Top Notch Peak (foreground) and Mount Stevenson (right back) seen from Avalanche Peak (NPS / Jacob W. Frank)
For the next 24 years, Doane served with the regiment, reaching the rank of captain in 1884.
He had been assigned to border posts in Montana, California, and Arizona during his postwar career.
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He took part in the Sioux War of 1876, the Nez Pearce War of 1877 and the Apache Campaign of 1886.
Doane also led the first official exploration of present-day Yellowstone National Park, the 1870 Langford-Washburn Expedition.
Towards the end of his life, Doane tried unsuccessfully to gain the superintendence of Yellowstone National Park and to influence the widespread acceptance of the army by his invention, the Doane Centennial Store.
He died on May 5, 1892.
The National Park Service said that in 1870, Doane led an attack on a Piegan Blackfeet gang in response to the alleged murder of a white fur trader.
“During what is now known as the Marias Massacre, at least 173 American Indians were killed, including many women, members of the elderly tribe, and children suffering from smallpox. Doane wrote affectionately about this attack and left. to brag about it for the rest of his life. ” wrote the agency.
The name was submitted to the Geographic Names Board in June 2022, based on recommendations from the Rocky Mountain Tribal Council.
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Yellowstone National Park has been in contact with the 27 associated tribes over the past few months and has received no opposition or concern about the change.
The name change will be reflected in the National Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) in the coming days.
The park said it may consider additional changes to other “derogatory or inappropriate names in the future.”
Julia Musto is a journalist for Fox News Digital. You can find her on Twitter at @JuliaElenaMusto.