But after nearly two years of trying, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians finally persuaded the U.S. Board on Geographic ...

In fact, the name Kuwohi translates to “the mulberry place” in Tsalagi, the Cherokee language. Though known as Kuwohi by the Cherokee people for hundreds of years, explorer Arnold Guyot ...

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was among the many stakeholders that supported the name change, taking action to recognize the Cherokee connection to Kuwohi two years before the final vote ...