First Peoples Mountain: Yellowstone peak that honored massacre leader renamed after victims

A government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a U.S. Army officer who helped lead a massacre of Native Americans.

Mount Doane will now be called First Peoples Mountain after the unanimous vote by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the National Park Service announced Thursday.

The 10,551-foot peak in southeastern Yellowstone in Wyoming had been named for Lt. Gustavus Doane, who in 1870 helped lead an attack on a band of Piegan Blackfeet in northern Montana.

By The Associated Press

First Peoples Mountain, center, rises between Top Notch Peak, foreground, and Mt. Stevenson, back right, seen from Avalanche Peak.Jacob W. Frank / National Park Service