A Colorado state panel has recommended Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky.
FILE Visitors pass the sign on the summit of Mount Evans near Idaho Springs, Colo., on July 15, 2016. A Colorado state panel recommended Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky. – A Colorado state panel recommended Thursday that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
The 14,264-foot peak southwest of Denver is named after John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor. Evans resigned after an 1864 U.S. cavalry massacre of more than 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people — most of them women, children and the elderly — at Sand Creek in what is now southeastern Colorado.
Mosqueda, who has been actively involved in Mount Evans' renaming process, said Evans was in the perfect position as territorial governor to give the tribes a reservation, but"instead he went the genocide route.” Mestaa’ėhehe Mountain, pronounced “mess-taw-HAY,” honors and bears the name of an influential translator, also known as Owl Woman, who mediated between Native Americans and white traders and soldiers in what is now southern Colorado.
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