When I met Myron Pourier at his home on the Pine Ridge Reservation last summer, he was working to change the name of Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak. Myron is the great great grandson of Black Elk, and saw this effort as a symbolic step toward reconciliation.  Just an hour ago, as I was doing final revisions on the book that Myron’s story is in,  I saw that The Federal Board of Geographic Names voted to change Harney Peak […]

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