Opinion: Why returning the name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains matters
Place naming is only truly reparative if these processes truly reflect the agency and intent of these historically oppressed ...
USA Today28d
How Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak reclaimed historic name | Word from the Smokies:
Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer28d
How Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak reclaimed historic name | Word from the Smokies:
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 ...
Nashville Scene19h
Albert Bender on Changing the Name of Cumberland Park
The Indigenous Peoples Coalition chair is at the forefront of the movement to give the park its ancient Shawnee name ...
The Conversation20d
From Confederate general to Cherokee heritage: Why returning the name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains matters
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 ...