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Soon, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board is poised to potentially discuss a new name for Mount Evans, a nearby 14,000-foot mountain over the Continental Divide from Summit County.
In recent months, the board has been tasked with addressing proposals dealing with derogatory or offensive types of names.
Tim Mauck, deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, said it is not a guarantee, but renaming Mount Evans could end up on the next agenda for September.
Northeast of Summit County, the 14er is named after John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor. Evans resigned after a U.S. Cavalry massacre of more than 200 Arapaho and Cheyenne people — most of them women, children and the elderly — at Sand Creek in what is now southeastern Colorado in 1864.
Earlier this year, Clear Creek County commissioners voted to approve a recommendation to change Mount Evans to Mount Blue Sky at the request of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The Arapaho were known as the Blue Sky People, and the Cheyenne hold an annual renewal of life ceremony called Blue Sky.
