Mount Doane Is Gone! Deemed Too Offensive

Mount Doane in Yellowstone National Park was renamed First Peoples Mountain by the National Park Service last week.

The modification was made on Thursday to remove the “offensive name” from America’s first national park, according to the government.

The decision was upheld by the United States Board on Geographic Names, which voted 15-0 to uphold it.

The Wyoming peak rises 10,551 feet above Yellowstone Lake to the east.

Previously, the mountain was named after explorer Gustavus Doane.

Doane was born in Illinois in 1840 and grew up in California, where he attended the University of the Pacific in Santa Clara before joining the “California Hundred,” a federal volunteer regiment that was eventually absorbed by the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry.

The name was submitted to the Board on Geographic Names in June 2022, based on the Rocky Mountain Tribal Council’s suggestions.

Over the previous few months, Yellowstone National Park has reached out to all 27 affiliated Tribes and has heard no objections or reservations about the move.

In the next days, The Domestic Names Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) will reflect the name change.

The park added that other changes could be made to “derogatory or inappropriate names in the future.”