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Why Returning The Name Kuwohi To The Great Smoky Mountains Matters
18, 2024, to formally agree to rename the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee to Kuwohi ...
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Word from the Smokies: Park’s highest peak reclaims historic name, Kuwohi
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 ...
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Newfound Gap Road reopens, Kuwohi Road remains closed due to ice, snow
Late Wednesday morning, The park shared that Newfound Gap Road had reopened, however, Kuwohi Road, formerly Clingmans Dome Road, remains closed because of snow and ice. Update: Snow falls on ...
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How Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak reclaimed historic name | Word from the Smokies:
Kuwohi, formerly known as Clingmans Dome, is the highest peak within the tribe’s ancestral homeland and offers a sweeping view of treetops throughout the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s “the ...
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Newfound Gap Road back open in the Smokies after closing due to snow and ice in the mountains
Kuwohi Road (formerly Clingmans Dome Road) remains closed due to ice and snow. Commercial vehicles continue to be prohibited on US 441/Newfound Gap Road and in all of Great Smoky Mountains ...
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From Confederate general to Cherokee heritage: Why returning the name Kuwohi to the Great Smoky Mountains matters
18, 2024, 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 ...
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Word from the Smokies: Park’s highest peak reclaims historic name, Kuwohi
Kuwohi, formerly known as Clingmans Dome, is the highest peak within the tribe’s ancestral homeland and offers a sweeping view of treetops throughout the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s “the ...