The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to a news release from the park. The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.”

  • MeatPilot@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    US: We renamed it, isn’t this great!

    Cherokee people: Yeah, so when do we get the land back?

    US: 😂

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      7 hours ago

      US: show us to whom you’re returning it and we’ll just pass it along.