Kiona — Meaning "brown hills," this name is made famous by Mary Kiona of the Tai’t na-pam tribe (also known as the Upper ...

This story was updated to add new information. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. − The highest peak in the sprawling Great Smoky Mountains National Park is dropping the name of a Confederate general in favor of its ...

The Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak will be renamed Kuwohi, restoring its original Cherokee name after over 150 years. The U.S. Board of Geographic Names approved the change, requested by the ...

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 ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.

Gatlinburg, Tenn. — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The ...