This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. It’s not every day that the name of a mountain is restored to the one used by Indigenous peoples for centuries. But after nearly two years of trying, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians finally convinced the United States Board on Geographic Names on Sept. 18 to formally agree to rename the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee to Kuwohi (koo-whoa-hee). The mountain, known as Clingmans Dome since 1859,…
