Mount Evans, named after the former territorial governor who authorized the indiscriminate murder of Native Americans more than 150 years ago, has a new name.
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Friday to rename Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, prioritizing the mountain's renaming to the top of their considerations and ending a process that's been more than a year and-a-half in the making.Its new name honors both the Arapaho and Cheyenne peoples. The former are known as the"Blue Sky people," and the latter have a ceremony each year called"Blue Sky.
The following names were also considered before the board made its final determination Friday afternoon: The Clear Creek County Board of County Commissioners voted to rename Mount Evans in March 2022 to honor the Indigenous and Native American peoples of Colorado. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board then began meeting to discuss the name change.
The renaming process was put on pause to discuss the Northern Cheyenne Tribes' concerns with naming the peak Mountain Blue Sky. Northern Cheyenne tribal administrator William Walksalong told our partners at The Denver Post in March that assigning the words “Blue Sky” to Mount Evans would be “sacrilegious,” as the words"Blue Sky" are used in Northern Cheyenne ceremony. He told The Denver Post that transferring the words to serve as the name of a mountain would betray secrets.
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