The Federal Board of Geographic Names voted to change Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak. “I’m honestly a little surprised it happened so fast,” said state Rep. Kevin Killer of Pine Ridge, ...

PIERRE | A federal board's Thursday decision to rename Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak surprised South Dakota's governor, but vindicated activists who unsuccessfully argued to state officials last year ...

This mountain has been known as Harney Peak for more than 100 years. Now it will be known as Black Elk Peak. “I’m in favor of the change for sure,” Meyers said.

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.

Residents of western South Dakota are debating the decision last week by a federal board to change the name of Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak.

Rising from the center of the Black Elk Wilderness, Black Elk Peak is the highest mountain in the Black Hills. The former name of Harney Peak was offensive to Native Americans, because General ...

ABOVE: A view of Harney Peak from an overlook along the Sylvan Lake trail. (Photo credit: Jake DeGroot, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons). INSET BELOW: Nicholas Black Elk, daughter Lucy Black ...

A federal board renamed this 7,242-foot peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota as Black Elk Peak after an objection to the man it was named after: William Harney. Dick Holland in his Omaha home ...

The 82-year-old Oglala Sioux member whose attempt to rechristen South Dakota's highest point for a revered tribal spiritual leader fell on receptive federal ears said Friday that the decision was ...

A federal board on Thursday renamed Harney Peak in the Black Hills to Black Elk Peak, saying the name of the state's highest peak was derogatory to Native Americans because ...