The 14,264-foot peak was named after John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor and ex officio superintendent of Indian affairs.
Evans resigned after Col. John Chivington led an 1864 U.S. cavalry massacre of more than 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people — most of them women, children and the elderly — at Sand Creek in what is now southeastern Colorado.
“Colonel Chivington celebrated in Denver, parading the deceased bodies through the streets while Governor Evans praised and decorated Chivington and his men for their ‘valor in subduing the savages,’” Polis wrote in a Feb. 28 letter to Trent Palmer, the federal renaming board’s executive secretary. Studies by Northwestern and the University of Denver published in 2014 also recognized Evans’ positive contributions but determined that even though he was not directly involved in the Sand Creek Massacre, he bore some responsibility.
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