Highest Point East of Rockies Renamed for Native American

Friday, August 12, 2016 - 21:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

South Dakota's Harney Point will no longer be named after an army officer who has been accused of massacring native people. It will now be called Black Elk Peak after a Lakota elder.

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