A Colorado state panel has recommended that Mount Evans, a prominent peak near Denver, be renamed Mount Blue Sky.
The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board voted unanimously Thursday for the change at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.
The Arapaho were known as the Blue Sky People, and the Cheyenne hold an annual ceremony called Blue Sky.The peak is named after John Evans, Colorado's second territorial governor. He resigned after an 1864 U.S. cavalry massacre of more than 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people.
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