Clingmans Dome Highest Point

Clingmans Dome renamed Kuwohi in honor of Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

The effort to change the name was led by Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians, who first settled the mountain in the Smokies and consider it sacred.

National Parks Traveler · 3d

Name Of Clingmans Dome Changed To Cherokee Name For The Mountain

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names on Wednesday voted to change the name of the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, a Cherokee name for the mountain.

Asheville Citizen Times on MSN · 1d

Clingmans Dome no more: Cherokee name for Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak restored

Kuwohi, which translates to “mulberry place” in Cherokee, replaces Clingmans Dome, a name that honored Thomas Clingman, an expelled U.S. senator-turned-Confederate brigadier general who, as a lawyer, defended settlers’ claims on Cherokee land. Clingman is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Asheville.

Federal board unanimously approves restoring 'Kuwohi' name to highest point in Great Smoky Mountains

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted, 20-0, to restore the "Kuwohi" name to a mountain traditionally used by the Cherokee ...

USA Today4d

Clingmans Dome renamed Kuwohi in honor of Cherokee people who consider the mountain sacred

The highest point in Tennessee will once again ... 18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

3don MSN

What was formerly known as Clingmans Dome, the highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains, has now been restored to its ...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution2d

Clingmans Dome in Smoky Mountains reverts to its Cherokee name, Kuwohi

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially ... a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to ...

2don MSN

Tennessee national park's highest peak reverts to Native American name

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is officially reverting to ...

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