Besides Harney Peak Thursday, the board considered 12 other requested name changes or requests to name unnamed places, Yost said. There was no notice or agenda of Thursday's meeting published on ...

Harney also led U.S. military operations in the Black Hills area in the 1870s. For decades, Native American activists lobbied for Harney Peak’s name to be changed.

When the peak was named Harney years ago, the Lakota were not consulted regarding the name." +3 Nicholas Black Elk, as he appeared in 1887 while touring with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Letter: Re: Renaming Harney Peak Gail Cain, Sioux Falls So, South Dakota lawmakers want to limit the power of a state board to rename Harney Peak because lawmakers don’t consider the name offensive.

It’s true that Harney Peak, at 7,242 feet above sea level, towers over North Carolina’s 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the Eastern United States.

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The South Dakota Board of Geographic Names has recommended that the name of Harney Peak, the highest geographical point in South Dakota, remain unchanged. Discussion about changing ...

In 2014, Basil Brave Heart of Pine Ridge led an in-state effort to remove Harney and honor Black Elk, the Lakota holy man for whom the wilderness area surrounding the peak is named.

South Dakota's Harney Peak will no longer be named after an army officer who has been accused of massacring native people. It will now be called Black Elk Peak after a Lakota elder.

RAPID CITY – Harney Peak's distinction as the "highest point in the U.S. east of the Rockies" is as rock-solid to many South Dakotans as the granite at the 7,242-foot summit.

My husband and I hiked Harney Peak for the first time together almost 17 years ago, just a few days before our wedding. It was memorable for more than the CAREY DENMAN: A Harney Peak hike to remember ...

Harney Peak’s distinction as the “highest point in the U.S. east of the Rockies” is as rock-solid to many South Dakotans as the granite at the 7,242-foot summit.