KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — They say a mountain’s view is best after a hard climb, and Lavita Hill knows this all too well after more than two years of effort to restore the Cherokee name, Kuwohi, to ...

COLUMBIA, Missouri. (WVLT) - The U.S. Board on Geographic Names’ Domestic Names Committee voted unanimously to change the name of a popular spot in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Wednesday ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The ...

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View from the overlook on Kuwohi of the mountain peaks and ridges of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Getty Images It’s not ...

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted today in favor of the formal request submitted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) to change the name of Clingmans Dome (FID #1326387) to Kuwohi.

JACKSBORO, Tenn. (WATE) — The Campbell County Commission has become the second governing body in East Tennessee to declare symbolic support for renaming Clingmans Dome. The County Commission on Monday ...

The mountain peak once known as Clingmans Dome will now be known as Kuwohi. After 165 years, the mountain peak previously known as Clingmans Dome has a new name. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council has taken the next step toward renaming Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to its traditional Cherokee name: Kuwohi, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — They say a mountain’s view is best after a hard climb, and Lavita Hill knows this all too well after ...