This week, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approved restoring the name Kuwohi to Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hill and her friend Mary Crowe, who are tribal ...

The proposal to change Clingmans Dome, the highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to Kuwohi has been an ongoing effort by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) since July 2022.

Long before the misty peaks along the Tennessee-North Carolina border were called the Great Smoky Mountains, the tallest of them was known not as Clingmans Dome but as Kuwohi. In Cherokee, it ...

In July, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Council voted to support a resolution to rename Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi – which translates to the Mulberry Place. Since then there has been growing ...

Important dates for Kuwohi/Clingmans Dome. 11,000 B.C. – roughly when the first people settled in the region; 1540 – In the first encounter between the Cherokee and Europeans recorded by ...

Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the national park and the destination of many visitors who've made the steep hike to its summit, will now be called Kuwohi, according to the National Park Service.

The mountain has always been known as Kuwohi to the Cherokee people. The mountain was named Clingmans Dome following an 1859 survey that named the mountain for Thomas Lanier Clingman who was a ...

The federal board on Sept. 18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This week, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) approved restoring the name Kuwohi to Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hill and her friend Mary Crowe, who are tribal ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The name change proposal for Clingmans Dome to become Kuwohi, the Cherokee word for “mulberry place,” on a federal level is slated to be reviewed by the U.S. Board on ...

The mountain has always been known as Kuwohi to the Cherokee people. The mountain was named Clingmans Dome following an 1859 survey that named the mountain for Thomas Lanier Clingman who was a ...