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- The state’s Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday voted unanimously to strip the name of disgraced territorial governor John Evans from a Clear Creek County fourteener and recommended Mount Blue Sky as the new name, honoring Cheyenne and Arapaho people whose ancestors were killed in the Sand Creek Massacre.
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Sep 15, 2023 · The U.S. Board on Geographic Names put a period on the dispute between two tribal groups on the new name for Colorado's Mount Evans, selecting Mount Blue Sky on Friday. The vote was 15-1, with three abstentions.
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Sep 15, 2023 · Mount Evans, the Colorado fourteener named after the state's disgraced territorial governor John Evans, has been given a new name -- Mount Blue Sky -- by the U.S. Board on Geographic...
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Mount Blue Sky was carved from the rock of the Mount Evans Batholith, formed by an intrusion of magma into the Earth's crust about 1.4 billion years ago (in the Mesoproterozoic Era of the Precambrian Eon).
Sep 15, 2023 · The 25-member Domestic Names Committee (DNC) voted to change the name to Mount Blue Sky for federal use after two nation-to-nation consultations and several years of consideration by state, county, local and Tribal governments.
The name Mount Blue Sky was proposed in 2020 by the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes and the Wilderness Society, and the name was approved by Clear Creek County in March 2022.
Sep 15, 2023 · The U.S Board of Geographic Names voted Friday afternoon to rename Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky, honoring the indigenous Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes. The mountain had been named after former territorial governor John Evans.
Sep 19, 2023 · Colorado 14er Mount Evans, a 14,270ft peak that towers over the front range has a new name: Mount Blue Sky. The move follows years of conversations and negotiations between residents, Native Americans and local and state elected leaders and was decided by a formal 15 - 1 vote on Friday, held by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
